Hi,
We had a busy week! Our Pen Pals came on Wednesday and we glazed our bowls for the Empty Bowl Project with them. Our next Pen Pal visit will be on Tuesday, March 26 at 1:00 in the gym. We will be participating in PE activities with them. We will have fun playing seated volleyball, tossing baskets, dancing and other activities to promote physical activities and health with the children and the adults.
We also had a fun night at our carnival! Thanks to all who donated their time or items for our basket! Thank you so much to Jeanne McCulloch for all her hard work to make our basket look so amazing!
Last week, we took our STAAR ready tests in reading and math. They were challenging but gave us good information to move us forward and focus instruction. Thank you for working hard with your child at home.
STAAR PARENT INFORMATION SESSIONS will be held on March 7th at 7:30am and 6:00pm. Both sessions will be held in the FCE Library. You may find some general information on STAAR at the following link: STAAR Standard Setting Questions and Answers. (go to website for active link)
We will have a reading challenge over Spring Break. Your child is expected to read at least 150 minutes over the break but we will have a little competition to see how many minutes we can all read. Prizes will be awarded to every child reading over 150 minutes. The children who read the most, get to choose their prize first. Thank you for encouraging reading at home!
Continue to practice math facts in all operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division). Have fun with multi-step problems, geometry vocabulary, and measurement vocabulary at home as well.
This week, we will be finishing up our published books! Please return the order form with a signature and mark whether you want to purchase additional copies or just check no. Each child will have their original pages bound into a hard cover book.
Fill out the parent climate survey form for our district. The link is on our school webpage. https://www.roundrockisd.org/surveys/surveys/13ParentEng1.htm?path=/surveys/surveys/
Read about our week:
Reading-We began learning about World War II and reading historical fiction or literary nonfiction books about this topic. We will be using this books about WWII to teach comprehension skills as well as to discuss tolerance and respectfulness.
Writing-We will be working on our published books as well as continuing to work on revising and editing skills. We are in the process of writing essays about weathering, erosion, and deposition in science and will begin gathering more entries for personal narratives this week. Writing Camp will be the week after spring break! Get out your sleeping bags and camp clothes ready for a fun week of writing activities in the morning mixed with math games in the afternoon. More information will be coming.
Math-We are finishing up more fun activities in measurement and will be working with geometry this week and after spring break. Be sure to work on facts, multi-step problem solving and vocabulary at home. We will have a geometry vocabulary test after spring break.
Science-We are finishing up weathering, erosion, and deposition or changes to the land and will begin learning about weather. We will have a test on Changes to the Land on Thursday. A study guide will come home on Monday.
Social Studies-Happy Texas Independence Day! It was actually on March 2, 1836 that the Texas Declaration of Independence was signed. We will be discussing this and the Battle of the Alamo which was fought on March 6, 1836.
Dates to Remember:
Kindergarten Round up-March 5- 9am -2pm
Early Release on Wednesday, March 6 at 12:45
Thursday, March 7-Writing Club 2:45-3:45-Order forms for Published books are due
Thursday, March 7-STAAR PARENT INFORMATION SESSIONS-7:30am and 6:00pm
Monday, March 11-Friday, March 15-Spring Break
Tuesday, March 19-Friday, March 22-Writing Camp!
Friday, March 22-Hoe Down for Grades K-2
Have a great week!
Pam
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