Week of March 4

Upcoming Events:

JMarch 12 and 14 Conferences (4-7:30) (These will be student led so please bring your child)

JMarch 15 No School

J March 18-22 Iowa Assessments

J March 28 1 hr. early out

JMarch 29 No School

Notes:

JIowa Assessments are planned for the week of March 18.  Please help your child get to bed at a good time so they can receive a good night’s sleep.  We also encourage that your child eats a nutritious breakfast.  Our goal is 145 which is the National Percentile Ranking in reading and math.  We will take tests throughout the week.

JAs we are putting our portfolios together for conferences I have noticed how well our writing has grown this year.  Students are listening to their sounds when writing, writing with correct punctuation, and using complete sentences.

Things to Work on:

J Reading AR books

JOnce we completed a week of spelling words you may still continue working on these words at home to help them remember the correct spelling patterns.

What we have been up to:

Reading: This week we read a Frog and Toad story called The Kite.  Frog and Toad books are good beginning chapter books for first graders.  While we read the book we worked on visualizing what was happening in the story.  We also focused on what the problem was in the story and how the problem was solved, the solution.  Our words this week focused on –ight and –ind sounds.

Math: This week we started a new math unit focusing on money.  We will be learning how to make money amounts with the fewest coins as well as adding money amounts from story problems.

Science/ Social Studies: This week we finished our unit on past and present by comparing transportation and technology.  We started a new science unit on motion and energy.