Reminders:
Our Valentine Party is this week on Thursday from 2:00-2:45!
Please join us if you can. We would love help with set-up at 1:30.
Thank you to our homeroom parents for all the hard work in
making this a fun event for our kids.
You child got a note with their classmates names this past
Tuesday tomake their Valentine's.
Please make sure they make one for every classmate.
Thursday- February 14th- Valentine Day Party
Monday/Tuesday- February 18th/19th- Student Holidays-No School
March 18th-22nd - Spring Break
Homework-
Read nightly - 20 minutes
Dreambox- 10 minutes a night
Spelling- 5 minutes or as needed
Writing- Ungraded optional prompts
Read nightly - 20 minutes
Dreambox- 10 minutes a night
Spelling- 5 minutes or as needed
Writing- Ungraded optional prompts
1. Use 8 of your spelling words in a story.
Bonus challenge: Use 15 of your words in a story!
Bonus challenge: Use 15 of your words in a story!
2. If you had the choice to live in the countryside
or in a big city, which would you
choose and why?
or in a big city, which would you
choose and why?
3. Why is it important that we practice the 4 agreements
and follow our class contract?
Writing
This week we will start on Monday with a practice test for the
STAAR writing. This is only a practice to guide our instruction
and let the kids know what the test will be like. We will have a
slightly modified schedule on Monday for our testing and on
Tuesday for testing done in other grades. We may have a slightly
different recess, specials and lunch time. On Monday our first few
hours will be dedicated to testing. Please remind your child to
eat breakfast and arrive at school on time.
The rest of the week we will be taking one of the planning pages
we created this past week and turning that into a well developed story.
Reading-
Our new reading groups are under way. We will be meeting with
partners to read the books we have picked. Each partner pair is
working at their own
pace and may have time to read more than one book.
We will also be focused on the reading skills of identifying author's
purpose and
fact and opinion. We will also continue to work on using our
reading skills to
answer questions on our weekly TFK (Time for Kids) magazine.
Spelling-
At the end of the week we will have our spelling test.
We practice in class each day, but I encourage your
children to also practice at home.
Social Studies-
Next week we will learn about specific battles in the Civil War
that were fought in Texas. By the end of next week we
hope to wrap up discussing the Civil War and move into
Texas during reconstruction.
and follow our class contract?
Writing
This week we will start on Monday with a practice test for the
STAAR writing. This is only a practice to guide our instruction
and let the kids know what the test will be like. We will have a
slightly modified schedule on Monday for our testing and on
Tuesday for testing done in other grades. We may have a slightly
different recess, specials and lunch time. On Monday our first few
hours will be dedicated to testing. Please remind your child to
eat breakfast and arrive at school on time.
The rest of the week we will be taking one of the planning pages
we created this past week and turning that into a well developed story.
Our new reading groups are under way. We will be meeting with
partners to read the books we have picked. Each partner pair is
working at their own
pace and may have time to read more than one book.
We will also be focused on the reading skills of identifying author's
purpose and
fact and opinion. We will also continue to work on using our
reading skills to
answer questions on our weekly TFK (Time for Kids) magazine.
Spelling-
At the end of the week we will have our spelling test.
We practice in class each day, but I encourage your
children to also practice at home.
Social Studies-
Next week we will learn about specific battles in the Civil War
that were fought in Texas. By the end of next week we
hope to wrap up discussing the Civil War and move into
Texas during reconstruction.
