Upcoming Events
February 14 - Valentine's Day. More details to come.
February 16th - Linda Silverman,
Director of the Gifted Development Center in Denver, Colorado Presentation
No School on February 17-21 for Teacher Inservice and Presidents' Day
March 10-11 - Teacher Conferences
March 18 - Parent Coffee with Sandi, 7:30 am
March 26 - Seabury Auction!
In Language Arts, students are continuing to read their novels. We are also talking about adjectives and the nouns they describe. The students are now looking up the Word of the Day in the dictionary to find the meaning and part of speech.
We will be finishing up our math chapters in the next week. Look for the practice test to come home on Monday or Tuesday to practice for the test. Keep working on multiplication facts!
The students took a short break from their hard backed books this week to write a few poems. As a class, we wrote 2 possible poems for our auction quilt. The students decided they like acrostic poems much more than rhyming poems. They each wrote an acrostic poem about their animal and then another using adjectives about themselves. We will be writing many poems during the month of April, National Poetry Month.
Science has brought us into the world of touch. We performed a touch test to find the part of the arm that is most sensitive. The kids went through the scientific method to test their predictions about which part would be most sensitive. This will help prepare the kids for the upcoming science fair. You should have found a set of guidelines in the homework folder on Monday. The brainstorming for the science fair project is due on Monday. Please let me know if you need any ideas.
In Social Studies, the students created 3-dimensional maps of the settlement of Roanoke and Jamestown. They are continuing to learn about the first settlements in America and the voyage of the Mayflower.
Next week Mrs. Gellert returns! She will have many interesting stories to share with the students, so be sure to ask on Wednesday! Here's to another wonderful week!
