News from Mrs. Straw

Events:

-Feb. 17 School Day (This is a make-up day)

-March 5 (2 hr. early out)

-March 17, 18 Conferences

- March 19-21 No School (Spring Break)

-March 31- April 4 Iowa Assessments

What’s Happening in BUILD:

**This week we continued our Olympics activities.

B (Buddy Games)- Time Speed Skating (Matching analog clocks to digital clocks)

U (Using Manipulatives)- Shreddin’ Base 10 (Working with base 10 blocks to show a two digit number)

I (Indpendently Working)-Torch Missing Numbers (Recording missing numbers on a number line)

L (Learning with Numbers)- Problem solving by adding specific amount of tens

D-(Doing Math)- Scootpad on laptops

What’s Happening in Daily 5:

*Listen to Reading (Bookflix and Tumblebooks)

*Read to Self

*Read to Someone

*Word Work

        -Highlight specific features in   

           Poems

        -Practice reading sight words and

          Phrases

       -Word Journeys (cut and sort words

         and write sentences with words)

Week in Review:

- This week we continued working on writing our persuasive paragraphs.  Students have some great topics of things they would like to persuade you about and will share them at conferences with you.

-This week we had guidance with Ms. Schiek and she has been talking about bullying. She has discussed with us what a bully is, what ways people can be bullied, and what we can do to stop a bully.

Notes:

-Thank you to all the parents who have contributed snacks, juice, plates, etc for our classroom parties this year.  Our Valentine’s Day party was our last class party for the year.