Week of 3/4 - 3/8

March 7, 2024

Dear Parents,

Thank you so much to our Mystery Reader volunteers: Mrs. Gupta, Mrs. McCain, Mrs. Dow, Mr. Wilsbach, Mr. Tesar, and Mrs. Tunick.  The students and I really enjoyed the stories you've shared!

As a reminder, spring conferences will be offered next week.  These conferences are not manditory for most.  I will be emailing those parents with whom I need to schedule a conference.  If you do not receive an email from me, but you would like to have a conference, please send me a note or an email and we'll set up a time.  I will not be using Sign-Up Genius for these conferences.

Also, please take some time to complete our School Experience Survey in the upcoming days.  The results of this survey will provide useful information about our school and help to make it even better.  The survey window is  2/12/24 - 3/22/24.  Please note that all surveys are compatible with virtually any device that has internet access.  Once you complete the survey, please take a screen shot (or print out) the "Thank you" page at the end and email or send it in to me.  Your child will then receive a "Beedazzle" slip, which may earn him or her a prize at a future assembly.  Many thanks to the parents who have already done this!

Finally, the students have a new 4 point AR goal.  Their new due date is April 2nd.  Please note that this is the day we return from Spring Break.

All the best,

Mrs. McLoud

This Week's Agenda:

Language Arts 

Mountain Language - Daily Language Arts Skills Practice 

Daily Silent Reading

Read Aloud - How to Steal a Dog, by Barbara O' Connor 

    Money, Money, Money, by Ruth Belov Gross       

Spelling Focus - Purpose of Prefixes; Focus on "un", "re", and "dis"

Cursive Lower Case - "r" and "s"

Reading Focus - Text-Evidence

California Regions Writing (Continued)

Math

Both Groups: Multiplication Tests

McLoud Group:

Specifying and Partitioning  a Whole into Equal Parts

Identifying and Counting Unit Fractions

Representing and Identifying Fractional Parts of Different Wholes

Topic A Quiz (Friday)

Dream House Work

Zearn Lessons

Fishman Group:

Identifying and Counting Unit Fractions

Representing and Identifying Fractional Parts of Different Wholes

Topic A Quiz

Dream House Work

Zearn Lessons

Discourse Challenge Problems

Social Studies - Geography and the Way We Live

Regions Reading for Text-Evidence (Continued)

Final Draft Region Writing

Art

Regions Illustrations

Dr. Seuss Character Illustrations

Health

"Feelings Circle" 

CKLA "How Does Your Body Work?" Reading Unit

Notes/Reminders/Info Dates

4 New AR points Deadline 4/2

Multiplication Test 3/14

School Experience Survey Deadline 3/22