Wednesday, March 25, 2015

March 25, 2015

Dear Parents,

      I hope you're enjoying this beautiful weather!  Hard to believe we're so close to Spring Break.  This week we are finishing up our study of Cesar Chavez in Social Studies and starting to review Science concepts from the beginning of the year.  In STEM lab, we did an activity where the students sorted and classified the plants and animals native to Georgia into the Mountain, Piedmont, Coastal Plain, Swamps/Marshes, and Atlantic Ocean regions.  Remember that your child can always review on www.brainpop.com or www.studyjams.scholastic.com   So far, I've only had two students turn in the Study Jams checklist completed for 20 extra Class Dojo points.  Please encourage your student to keep working on it!!

     In ELA we have been focused on comparing and contrasting characters in books written by the same author.  Yesterday we focused on Chrysanthemum and Owen  by Kevin Henkes.  We have finished our extended text Maniac McGee and the students are working on some writing related to Jerry Spinelli's excellent novel.

     In Math we are still learning about Time and Calendars and now have moved into Capacity with liters, milileters, grams, kilograms, cups, pints, quarts, and gallons.  If you do any cooking or baking with your child, please take the opportunity to reinforce these concepts.

   Thanks to those of you who have returned your child's report card!  After you have taken out your child's report card, please send back in the envelope. 

      Jenny M-G

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