Thank you so much for all of you who came and ran with us at
Shamrock 'n Roll Run. The
children had so much fun seeing their parents/grandparents. Thank you!
Reminder:
The 4th and 5th graders will be STAAR testing
Monday and Tuesday. Parent volunteers
and visitors are highly discouraged on these days. Thanks!
CONGRATULATIONS to
Theresa Bell! She is the winner of the
Family Dinner Night raffle for our class!
READING and WRITING
We will continue our research on chicks. The children are very excited since
we now have a few hatching eggs in our incubators and we are expecting them to
hatch in less than three weeks! We are recording the facts that we learn and
also jot down our "wonder" questions. The "wonder" questions will encourage us to do
more research and find out more. So far, we have been learning about the body parts of
chicks, and their life cycle. This week we will delve more into this and find out about
how does a chick grow inside an egg, where chicks live and what they eat.
MATH
We will continue working on telling time to the hour and this week we will focus on telling time to half-hour. We will look at both analog and digital clocks and learn that time is shown differently on each of these clocks. The short hand in the analog clock points to the "hour" and the long hand points to the "minute". In digital clock time is shown by digits. The digit before the two dots shows the hour and the digits after two dots show the minute.
SCIENCES
This week in science we will focus on living things and their offspring. We will learn that the offspring usually resemble their parents, although they are often called differently. We have been learning about the inter-dependency of living things in their ecosystem for the past couple of weeks. This week we will move on to simple food chains. We will learn how the plants are the producers, and can make their own food but the other living things either depend on each other or the plants for food.
We will continue working on telling time to the hour and this week we will focus on telling time to half-hour. We will look at both analog and digital clocks and learn that time is shown differently on each of these clocks. The short hand in the analog clock points to the "hour" and the long hand points to the "minute". In digital clock time is shown by digits. The digit before the two dots shows the hour and the digits after two dots show the minute.
SCIENCES
This week in science we will focus on living things and their offspring. We will learn that the offspring usually resemble their parents, although they are often called differently. We have been learning about the inter-dependency of living things in their ecosystem for the past couple of weeks. This week we will move on to simple food chains. We will learn how the plants are the producers, and can make their own food but the other living things either depend on each other or the plants for food.
HABIT #3: Put First things First- I spend my time on things
that are important. I set priorities.
REMINDERS:
*Specials- A Group: PE on Monday, Wednesday and Friday
B Group: PE on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday
**Wear tennis shoes for sure on these days!!!!
*Library- Tuesday 11-11:30
*Send orange folders and homework bags back every day.
*Send a healthy snack with your child every day. We will eat snack at 10:30
DATES to REMEMBER:
*Specials- A Group: PE on Monday, Wednesday and Friday
B Group: PE on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday
**Wear tennis shoes for sure on these days!!!!
*Library- Tuesday 11-11:30
*Send orange folders and homework bags back every day.
*Send a healthy snack with your child every day. We will eat snack at 10:30
DATES to REMEMBER:
March 30: Ms. Smith out
April 2: Science Night
April 3: No School
April 10: Family Fun Night
April 15: Chicks start to
hatch!!!!!!!
May 1: Field Day
May 4-8: Teacher Appreciation Week
May 7: Field Trip to Austin Nature
Center
May 11-15: Book Fair
May 14: Caraway Fine Arts Night
May 21: Volunteer Breakfast
May 25: No School, Memorial Day
June 5: Last Day of School, End of
the Year Party
