4th 9 weeks, week 1

Dear Family,

Lots of information below….

Your children earned a silly sock day during the APEX Fun Run.  We will do this tomorrow (Thursday).  We also earned a popsicle party, which we will enjoy on Friday.

Field Day is this Friday!  Please send your child to school wearing our GOLD class shirt and tennis shoes.  We will be eating lunch in class that day before field day begins.  If your child wants to order a bag lunch from the cafeteria for Friday, I will be collecting lunch orders from them tomorrow (Thursday).

Choice 1 -corn dog

Choice 2-sun-butter and jelly sandwich

Pizza will NOT be served this Friday.

When we return from spring break, we will be working on a Historical Figures PBL project. Students will be researching and creating a living museum project about a person from history that exemplifies individualism or inventiveness.  Students will be expected to research information about a historical figure of their choice . Please fill out this document:Historical Figures Google Form  with the name of your historical figure no later than Monday, March 25.  I am sending home additional information, the research question packet, and the rubric if you and your child would like to get a head start with researching over spring break. Completed research question packets, written in “kid friendly” language are due back in class by Thursday, March 28.  We will use these research packets in class to create the script for the projects. You are invited to our final presentations on Friday, April 5 10:45-11:45 AM in our classrooms.  Please let me know if you have any questions.

Next Week (after spring break!)…

Math: This week in math, students will continue to review with missing addend and fact families (4+4=8 so 8-4=4).

Science: This week, students will continue investigating how the external characteristics (Ex.: fins, beaks, claws, feathers, etc.) of an animal are related to where it lives, how it moves, and what it eats.  We will specifically discuss fish and chickens.

Reading/Writing: We will research, as a class, the historical figure, Ruby Bridges. We will come up with open ended questions and use relevant sources to gather our information in our research packet. We will then write a script we could use to present.

Balanced Literacy: This week in social studies, the students will continue to learn about historical figures that have made a difference in history in preparation for our PBL.  In phonics, students will work on recognizing and saying consonant clusters that blend two or three consonant sounds as well as recognizing and using high frequency words with three or more letters.

Campus News…

Math Superstars is coming to the last reward week on March 29th. Grades 1- 5 will need 400 minutes and Kinder 220 minutes by then to earn an invite for the ice cream party. Please encourage your kids to work on it during the spring break and catch up on all their minutes.

Important Dates…

·         Mar. 14 Singing Stars Concert 6:30 PM

·         Mar. 15 Field Day (12:40-2:20 PM) Volunteers needed: Field Day Volunteers

·         Mar. 18-22 spring break/no school

·         Mar. 25  Historical Figures Google Form due

·         Mar. 28 Student completed Historical Research packets due back in class

·         Mar. 28 Report Cards sent home

·         Apr. 5 Living Museum Historical Figures PBL presentations 10:45-11:45 AM in classrooms (parents invited)

·         Apr. 5 Sommer Carnival

*Library every Tuesday.  Please return books!

*RAZ Kids reading assignments due every Friday.