Reminders:
Monday- STAR Testing (Invitation Only), Super Storms Spelling Test
Tuesday- Library, Super Storms Comprehension and Skills Test
Wednesday-
Thursday- Homework Due; New Homework Issued; Tornado Drill;
Interims Available Online
Friday- Fun Run 9:30
Our trip to the zoo is next Thursday, March 7. We will be boarding
the bus at 9:00, so please make sure your child is here on time and
dressed for the weather (including sneakers and an appropriate jacket).
Our class will be wearing blue shirts to help with easy identification.
Your child's field study fees include lunch at the zoo. If you have not
paid all of your child's fees for the year, I will send you an email.
Lunch includes: Hot dog (plain), potato chips, animal crackers
and a drink box. If your child prefers a lunch from home, he or
she is responsible for carrying the lunch box the entire field trip.
We will leave the zoo at 1:00 to return to school.
We are allowed to have one chaperone for the entire field study,
including the morning program. That one person will need to either follow
the bus (leaving school at 9:00) or meet us at the zoo's front gate (9:45).
We can have additional chaperones meet us for lunch and zoo
exploration after our program is over. If you would like to join us,
meet us at the lunch hut at 11:30. Additional chaperones will have
to pay their own way or use their zoo membership.
***If you are interested in being a chaperone (entire field study or lunch
onward), please send me an email.
SAIL Schedule:
Monday- Art
Tuesday- PE
Wednesday- Music
Thursday- STEM
Friday- Advanced Clubs
This Week's LIFESKILL: Initiative
This Week's Blinky's Buddy: None
February Birthdays: None
What are We Learning This Week?:
Math:
Reading/Writing:
Reading Story: Super Storms (Treasures Textbook)
- Cause and effect
- Adverbs
- Phonics: e vowel teams: e_e, e, ey, ee, ea, ie
- Opinion Writing
Skills will include: problem and solution, compare and contrasting characters, reviewing r-controlled
vowels: eer/ear, and reviewing adjectives and adverbs.
Unit of Study:
Our new Unit of Study is about ANIMALS!
Life Science: Animals and Their Environments--
The students will demonstrate an understanding of how the structures of animals help them survive and grow in their environments.
Stuffed Animals Project!
Animal Projects Due: March 4th
Home Responsibility: To create the animal you have chosen for this research project. Animals should appear realistic (ex. penguins are not rainbow stripped) and be around 1 foot in length or less. Please NO store bought animals.
School Responsibilities: We will complete all research and written work in class.
Ideas/ Suggestions: (feel free to use items beyond this list)
Outside: Felt, fabric, paper
Stuffing: cotton balls, cut up plastic bag, pillow stuffing from craft store, toilet paper
How to Close: hot glue, tape, staples, simple stitch sewing, fabric glue
EXAMPLES:
Narwhale- made from felt, sewing option
Paper and Plastic Bag (this is not an animal but the same concept could be applied)
