Hi,
We are getting ready for our Valentine's Celebrations tomorrow. We will try to incorporate lots of Valentine's topics into other subject areas during the day and then have our visit with our pen pals at 12:55 to glaze our bowls for the Empty Bowl Project. Then it will be our party time! Thank you Mrs. Geyer for organizing things. We will be enjoying some ice cream and the kids will get to make their own sundaes. We will pass out our Valentines. Don't forget to bring a decorated bag or box to collect your valentines from your friends! Lastly we will create some valentines to give to children at the Texas Baptist Children's Home. It will be a great day! Thank you in advance for all your donations. The Service Club will be meeting after the party to make some more valentines for the Texas Baptist Children's Home and to plan some more service projects for our school.
A new student, James, will be officially joining our class on Thursday. We met him today and he may be at our party tomorrow. If you have an extra valentine, please ask your child to fill it out for James. I'm sure that a bunch of Valentines from us would make him feel especially welcome to Forest Creek and to our class!
We had a great week last week!
Reading-We continued reading and analyzing strategies that authors use in persuasive articles and created our own persuasive poster. We also began reading non-fiction or expository text and determining if the titles and subtitles were explicit (told you exactly what it was about) or inferential (you had to make an inference about what the section was about). There are several different text structures or ways that authors organize expository text such as description, sequential, cause/effect, problem/solution, and compare/contrast. We began looking for these structures to help us better understand the text.
Writing-We have been gathering entries for our next personal narrative piece. We finally chose a seed story, drafted some leads, and made a kernal story as an outline. We will be working on our drafts, revising, conferencing, and editing, and then finally publishing! (or making a final copy!) We also have been working on word study (short vowels, long vowels, plurals, and endings) and combinging sentences.
Math-Geometry is very fun but there is a lot of vocabulary! We are now working with 2-D and 3-D figures and all of the terms that go with them. We have been solving problems in geometry as well and tomorrow will begin making 3-D figures out of straws. Keep reviewing multiplication facts. (firstinmath.com and other math games on our class website are great for reviewing at home) Facts should start to become automatic.
Science-Natural Resources has been our focus. We sorted pictures to classify things as renewable resource, non-renewable resource, and inexhaustible resource. We will be learning about how fossil fuels are made and talking more about sustainable energy.
Social Studies-We will be learning more about the Texas Revoulution and then start looking at the history of the Republic of Texas.
Dates to Remember:
Tuesday, February 14-Valentine's Day Party at 1:45, Pen Pal visit in art room at 12:55, Service Club at 2:45-4:00
Friday, February 17-Wear Forest Creek Shirt or a purple or green shirt
Monday, February 20-No School for Students
Tuesday, February 21-Math Club 2:45-4:00
Thursday, February 23-Writing Club 2:45-4:00, Math Curriculum Night-6:00 pm
Friday, February 24-Wear Forest Creek Shirt or a purple or green shirt
Monday, March 5-Friday, March 9-Writing Camp-more info to follow
Friday, March 9-Hoe Down for k, 1,2
Saturday, March 10-Sunday, March 18-Spring Break
Tuesday, March 27, Wednesday, March 28-STAAR writing testing for Fourth graders
Tuesday, April 24, Wednesday, April 25-STAAR math and reading testing for Fourh graders
Let me know if you have any questions or concerns! Thank you for sharing your children with me.
Sincerely,
Pam Bartholomew
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