Hi, March 8, 2015
I hope that you are all staying dry. We had an amazing time on our field trip to the Bob Bullock Museum. Everyone did a great job and had fun. Thank you so much to our volunteers, Ms. Gordan and Mr. Junkans! We couldn't have done it without them! The first floor of the museum was under renovation. Be sure to go back and visit this summer. The tours at Texas State Cemetary and the Texas State Capitol also are wonderful trips to learn more about Texas history. These would be fun activities for spring break! Check out http://www.tspb.state.tx.us/SPB/Plan/Tours.htm and http://www.cemetery.state.tx.us/tour.asp for more information.
Spring Break Reading Challenge: We will be having another fun reading challenge! Read at least 100 minutes from March 13-March 22 and receive a prize when we return to school on March 23. The students who read the most will get to choose their prizes first. Challenge yourself and lose yourself in some great books. I can't wait to hear about what you read!
Reading: We will read more non-fiction this week. We will be examining some articles in Time for Kids as well as reading more about the Texas Revolution and famous Texans. We will be summarizing, making inferences, and determining character traits using textual evidence about our famous Texans. Reading summary and response is due this week on Wednesday and Friday. Don’t forget to work on I-Station for at least 20 minutes as part of your reading log time. Reading logs will be due on Friday this week.
Writing: We are determining the difference between personal narratives and expository writing. We will be writing more expository entries this week and continue to go over our CBA and figure out our strengths and challenges in writing to help us make improvements as writers. We will also continue to use mentor sentences to work on conventions.
Social Studies: Our goal is to complete our Texas Hero projects in school this week. We will continue researching on Monday and then begin typing our information for our posters or cereals boxes. We were going to learn a new computer presentation site for the projects, but will use that for our next project after spring break. Please send in empty cereal boxes this week and/or regular size poster board for your child's project. We will work hard to complete them in class this week. (extra empty cereal boxes would be appreciated!)
Dates to Remember:
Monday, March 9-Reading log due with at least 20 minutes of I-Station recorded.
Tutorials from 2:45-3:45, Kinder Round Up, Kona Ice sales at 3:15
Tuesday, March 10-Tutorials from 2:45-3:45, PTA Meeting at 6:30 pm
Wednesday, March 11-Early Release at 12:45. Summary and Response due, Kona Ice sales at 1:15
Thursday, March 12-Service Club 2:45-3:45 (Work on Empty Bowl Project)
Friday, March 13-Summary and Response due, Reading log due before Spring break, spelling and vocabulary test
Monday, March 16-20-Spring Break-We will have a Reading Challenge!!!!! Yeah!!!!
March 24-27-Writing Camp!!!!!!! More information will come soon.
March 27-Spring Carnival at 5pm
March 30-31-STAAR Writing Tests
April 3-Spring Holiday-No school
Have a great rest of the weekend! Let me know if you have any questions or concerns!
Sincerely,
Pam
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