Week of March 17

Sunday Schedule:  Week 1, Day 3

This week's homework:  15 minutes of reading each night, 1 SpellingCity activity each night (new list will be sent home on Sunday, March 17; Spelling Test on Thursday, March 28)

IXL Math for possible extra practice:  any H (old practice: any A, B, D, E, F, G, (K.1-K.3), M, (S.8-S.15)

Classroom Happenings:
We've wrapped up our Poetry Units in both Reading and Writing, but I don't think this will be the end of writing poems!  Students were sad to wrap up, but know that they can always write poems about the world around them (not just when we study poetry during workshop)!

With our wrap up of Poetry, we've moved into new Literacy Units.  Our current Reading Unit is Bigger Books, Amping Up Reading Power.  This unit focuses on three aspects of reading as we are bridging into bigger books: fluency, literary language, and tracking longer stories.  Our current Writing Unit is Writing About Reading.  In this opinion writing unit, students write letters about their favorite books, formulating opinions and supporting their ideas by providing reasons and using details and examples from the text to support their claims.   

In Math Module 4, students are adding and subtracting three digit numbers, with more fluency! 

Next week also marks the start of our next Science Unit, Properties of Materials! 

Reminders:
If you're looking for the 2AN Schedule, it's now posted on the Blog!  Be sure to also check the actual blog website from time to time (taism4an.blogspot.com) as the Upcoming Dates Section at the top of the blog might come in handy to fill calendars out with dates a bit ahead of time!

Birthday treats!  Let me know if you'd like to bring in birthday treats for the class!  We have 17 students in the class that are always welcoming of treats.  :)  We will typically have birthday treats at 10:15am with our snack time.  So, if you can drop them off in the morning before snack, we will enjoy them with snack.  If not, let me know so I can plan for another arrangement.  (Note:  We do not have a peanut/treenut allergy in our classroom, but we do have a few students that are to avoid nuts and beans.)