March 25th – 29th

Dear Families,

 We have almost come to the end of another month and have stepped into a new season.  One of our favorite times of the year is Spring because we dive into our animal unit, which also means that baby chicks are being hatched in our classrooms! We have had our chick incubators up and running for 2 full days now and are we excited!! We will be conducting a couple of fun eggsperiments with eggs on Tuesday and Wednesday. The children will make a prediction on Tuesday regarding what they think will happen to an egg on Wednesday, so please be careful not to "spill the beans" as to what will happen when they tell you about the experiment on Tuesday after school.
On another note, you will find your child's homework bag has been brought home today as next week is a short week, and I want to make sure everyone has ample time to complete and return them next Thursday.

Please have an enjoyable weekend in this beautiful weather with your loved ones!

Reading Workshop:

In Reading Workshop we will continue our unit on Animal Research.  We will learn about paraphrasing and synthesizing information.  We will review taking notes as we read our research books.  We will write notes on sticky notes and then synthesize that information and write it in or own words.  The end product will be written during Writer’s Workshop.

Writer’s Workshop:

In Writer’s Workshop we will practice recording our learning as we finish our whole class Research book.  We will begin working on our independent research project.  Each student will choose an animal to research, and a book. Then they will record their learning in their Research folder.

 Math:

Sets and Fractions are our topic of study for the next two weeks.  We will be describing objects using fractions/equal parts. We will examine whole objects and separate them into 2, 3, and 4 equal parts.  We will also examine sets of things and learn ways to break the sets into equal parts and use appropriate language to describe the parts such as three out of four equal parts are red.

Science:

This week in Science we will begin our unit on Chickens!  Over the next three weeks, will learn about a chicken’s life cycle, the development of an egg, adaptations of a chicken, what they eat, habitat and species of chickens.  We will read information to help us learn about the new additions to our classroom!

Thank You:

Tuesday Folders - Julie Cooper 

Homework Helpers - Mrs. Van Metre and Mrs. Bhatia

Classroom Helper - Kari Loschke 

At home volunteers - Christi Wright

Reminders:

The eggs are safely in the incubators!  We are expecting baby chicks on April 10^th.  If you are interested in giving some of these babies a home please let me know!

Friday, March 29^th Spring Holiday

**STAAR testing on April 2 and 3.  No Parents allowed in the building!**

Friday, April 12^th  Family Fun Night