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classroom Fun!

Researching our book study books with friends!

Using our number balance to balance our equations!

So much fun reading with our guest reader!

THIS WEEK'S NEWS:

~Odds and Ends:

THINGS TO SEND IN DAILY:
- Water bottle
- Snack
- Homework Folder
- Change of Clothes

SPECIALS:
- Our specials this week are:
  - Monday- MUSIC
  - Tuesday- PE
  - Wednesday- ART
  - Thursday- MEDIA
  - Friday- PE

PRINCIPAL'S MESSAGE:
- Friendly reminder to make sure you also click the link above and check out Mr. Tunstall's news letter. It has school wide information that is not on our class website!

SPRING CONFERENCES:
- Here's the link for the Spring conference sign up. I look forward to meeting with all of you soon!
- https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F094FACAF22A20-63071938-spring

TRACK OUT:
- Track out day is this Friday! I hope everyone has a wonderful break!

TRACK CHANGE REQUEST:
- Track Change Request- 2026-2027 School Year If you are interested in requesting a track change for the 26-27 school year, please complete the request form here. You do NOT need to complete this form if you wish to remain on your current track. Requests must be submitted by Friday, 3/27

INTENT TO RETURN:
- Intent to Return 2026-2027 School Year
  - It is time to start planning for the upcoming academic year! Please indicate if your child WILL or WILL NOT be returning to PUE for the 2026-27 school year. Complete one survey for EACH child currently attending Pleasant Union (Grades K-4) Submit no later than Friday, March 13, 2026
  - Complete this form: https://forms.gle/ezLXJpragxgKoAyL6

SSA TESTING:
- Single Subject Acceleration (SSA) Testing is right around the corner. For those interested in learning more, here is a link to the WCPSS Parent Information Presentation

We will also be holding a PUE SSA Parent Information Meeting

**This meeting has been recorded and posted on PUE's Acceleration Website

Testing Windows
- Track 2, 3, and 4: March 16 - 27

SSA Resources:

PUE PTA NEWS:

- Save the Dates :

- - April 6-10: National assistant principal appreciation week
  - April 19-25: administrative assistant appreciation week
  - May 1: national principal day
  - May 4-8: teacher appreciation week
  - May 30: Pantherpalooza 11-2

Yearbooks Are On Sale — Upload Photos in Treering!
- Yearbooks are now available for purchase, and families can personalize their child’s copy with two FREE custom pages. 📸 The PUE Yearbook Team is collecting photos now! Families can upload photos directly through Treering in the school folders within their account. We’re looking for first day of school photos, Panther Dash pics, grade-level moments, snow day fun, field trips, and school events. 🗓 Custom pages due by April 26, 2026 📘 Softcover: $30.52 | Hardcover: $37.66 (tax not included) 📦 Yearbooks will be delivered directly to the school 🔗 treering.com/validate 🔑 School passcode: 1016071186223064 Help us capture the memories that made this school year special!

~Year long Information:

NEW ATTENDANCE ABSENCE PROTOCOL:

- Starting Monday, September 15, 2025, Pleasant Union is launching a centralized absence/attendance email address. ALL parents are to email their child’s absence reason to: Attendance531@wcpss.net. The student’s first and last name, child’s track, and teacher must be included in the email. For a medical-related appointment during school hours, the dated doctor or appt note is necessary to be counted as an excused tardy. A doctor’s note is also necessary for 3 consecutive days of absences due to illness. Absences will only be excused when proper documentation is received by the attendance office within 48 hours of the student's return to school. For more info on attendance, read School Board Policy 4400: Attendance.

CLASS DIRECTORY:
- The class directory is complete! Here is the link.
- Class directory

VOLUNTEER REGISTRATION:
- Please please please register to volunteer! Make sure to submit your 25-26 School Year Volunteer Registration ASAP. This must be completed every year, even if you were approved last year. Even if you are unsure if you will volunteer this year, I encourage all parents to do so now before traditional schools return. Links and information on the process can be found here.

Showing off her journal writing and using her editor's checklist!

LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION Updates:

Topic 1: Becoming Researchers of Earth and Animals

Standards for this unit:

RL1.2 Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.
RL1.3 Describe characters, settings and major events in a story, using key details.
RL1.4 Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.
W. 1.3 Write narratives in which they recount two or more appropriately sequenced events, include some details regarding what happened, use temporal transition words to signal event order and provide some sense of closure. a. With guidance and support from adults, organize information and ideas around a topic to plan and prepare to write. b With guidance and support from adults, focus on a topic, respond to questions and suggestions from peers and add details to strengthen writing as needed.

This week we'll begin working on our next book, Mato the Bear and Devil's Tower. This is a wonderful retelling of a Lakota Tribe legend. We will learn about the Lakota tribe, where they were at in the US, and what the legend behind Mato the Bear is all about. While learning about the legend, we'll work on our retelling and comprehension skills.

Our stories are getting loooonnger! Gotta keep practicing that fluency!

LETTERLAND Updates:

Unit 27: /ed/ suffix

Standards for this unit:

L 1.2 Use conventional spelling for words with common spelling patterns and for frequently occurring grade appropriate irregular words
RF 1.1 Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print
RF 1.2 Print all upper and lower case letters legibly
RF 1.3 Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds
- Orally produce single-syllable words by blending sounds
RF 1.4 Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words
- Know the spelling-sound correspondences for common consonant digraphs
- Decode regularly spelled one-syllable words
- Recognize and read grade appropriate irregularly spelled words
RF 1.5 Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension

This week we will learn all about the suffix -ed. This lesson is a two week lesson, so we'll review and cover the other part of the lesson when we return from track out.

Next week, we'll learn about 2 of the 3 sounds the -ed suffix makes. The first 2 sounds are /d/ and /ed/ (think short vowel Mr. Ed) You can hear these sounds in words like shouted and filled. The third sound that we'll learn about when we get back is the /t/ sound that this ending can make. You can hear it in words like missed. It's important, yet tricky, to know that this suffix makes these 3 sounds, especially when we have to spell with them! You are welcome to work on these and review over track out. Make sure you practice tricky words and read every day too!

Using our number balance to balance our equations.

MATH Updates:

Unit 5: Operating with Place Value

Standards for this unit:

Use objects or drawings to represent and solve word problems that call for addition of three whole numbers whose sum is less than or equal to 20. (NC.1.OA.2)
NC.1.OA.1 Represent and solve addition and subtraction word problems, within 20, with unknowns, by using
1. 1. 1. objects, drawings, and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem, when solving:
    2. • Add to/Take from-Change Unknown
    3. • Put together/Take Apart-Addend Unknown
    4. • Compare-Difference Unknown
NC.1.OA.3 Apply the commutative and associative properties as strategies for solving addition problems.
NC.1.OA.8 Determine the unknown whole number in an addition or subtraction equation involving three whole numbers.

This week, we'll continue working on some place value with story problems that add 2 digit numbers together. We'll work on adding a decade number to a 2 digit number in our story problems. For example, Uncle David picked 45 peaches and Aunt Sarah picked 30 peaches. How many peaches are there in all?

We'll also continue to learn about regrouping with these bigger numbers! We'll need to borrow some to make it to our next ten! For example, Aunt Sarah used 37 peaches to make peach cobbler and 5 peaches to make ice cream. How many peaches did Aunt Sarah use to make her desserts?

However, the trickiest part of this week's math lesson is now we are adding the numberline to our strategies for solving. This is tricky because we have to borrow to jump to the nearest 10. Borrowing is hard! For example, in the equation above, we would start on 37 on the numberline. Then we have to figure out that we need to borrow 3 to get to 40. THEN, we need to remember the other 2 that didn't get borrow from our 5! Phew! It's a lot of steps, but we'll get there!

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