**Our Field Trip to the Field Museum is TUESDAY, MARCH 7th from 9:30-1:30 pm. I still need permission slips and money from some of you. If your child is not going on the field trip, please email me so I can make arrangements and assignments for their day at Irving while we are gone. PLEASE SEND A BAG LUNCH WITH NAME ON IT. The lunch must be NUT FREE. No glass bottles or lunch boxes please. Chaperones will be taking pictures of their groups favorite exhibits. We will be turning the photos into a writing project.
**In salute to all things Irish, bagpiper Patrick Lynch will be coming to Irving on Thursday, March 16th in the afternoon. He will present history behind bagpipe music and show the kids how he puts it all together. At dismissal, Mr. Lynch will give a concert on the black top for the school. Come join us!
**In keeping with the Irish theme, we will have SUPER TUBER DAY on Friday, March 17th during our station day time. PLEASE SEND A POTATO (any kind, not cooked) We will learn a little history about Ireland and the potato, examine its surface, count the "eyes," measure its length and take a look a different varieties. I have S. Raphael signed up to help but could use 1 or 2 more volunteers. Please email me if you can help.
**Future Event--The PTO Cultural Enrichment Committee has scheduled an assembly on March 23rd at 9:15 am called "Justin and Liam." It teachers character education through music and song writing.
**Please let me know if your child is traveling for Spring Break. I will send a TRAVEL JOURNAL.
**Trimester 2 ends on March 10th.
**Report cards go home on March 24th.
**Spring Break is 3/27-3/31. School resumes on Monday, April 3rd.
**NO SCHOOL--April 4th--Teacher's Institute Day.
**In Friendship Club this week, Dr. Bell Bey lesson focused on being bossy. She read a story and the students reflected their thoughts in writing and drawing.
**In Mr. Packer Thinking Skills this week, Mr. Packer continued his small group work on positional concepts and following directions.
**Our Second Step lesson this week focused on how to manage when we are disappointed.
This week:
It was all about Pushes, Pulls and Ramps! More about that in the science section. The students concluded their author study on Mo Willems and celebrated Dr. Seuss's birthday with a mini author study and Brain Pop Jr. video on his life and work. We had a whole station day planned of Dr. Seuss activities relating to math, writing and phonics but.......the students were so very involved in ramp building and experimenting that we extended our science time. We will have our Dr. Seuss activities on Monday.
Reading/Language Arts: The students used this week to work on a variety of formative and summative assessments using texts from our author study of Mo Willems. The students responded verbally, thru illustration and thru writing. They worked to answer a variety of questions. Who are the characters in the story? How are they alike? Different? What is the problem in the story? What does the character do to solve the problem? What effect does a repeating phrase have on a text? How does the illustration help you to understand the setting? What important job does the author or illustrator have in telling the story? Can you identify the key details in the story? The students did some marvelous work on problem/solution using the text, "That is Not A Good Idea." Using the text, "Knuffle Bunny," the students worked with partners to sequence events in the story and worked on how the author's words and illustrations helped students to understand the story. Lots of great drawings were done during our "we do" of author's words in the text, "Knuffle Bunny." In the text, "Edwina, the Dinosaur That Didn't Know She Was Extinct," students participated in a word study to best describe the main character. Workstations this week included leveled readers comprehension check and fluency, word family sort, digraph work, rhyming cvc words, read and draw simple sentences, digraph game, Pot of Gold CVC game, substituting sounds activity.
Math: The students continue to work in Module 4 in our Eureka Math series. Lessons continue to focus on creating a number bond for a given illustration for numbers 6,7,8,9. The students continue to use pictures, cube sticks and other drawings as well as number sentences to show their work. They continue to work on math races or sprints to strengthen sequencing, subitizing and number order. Workstations this week included writing numbers from 1-120, even and odd number sort, reading and solving addition and subtraction story problems using ten frames and writing the equation and counting on from a given number.
Writing: The students continue to work on lowercase letter formation. The letters k and y were introduced this week. In Writer's Workshop this week, the students were busy writing their "how to" stories on the topic of School. We will be completing our unit on "how to" writing next week with a publishing party.
Science: Our investigations this week centered on what causes objects to move? The students experimented with rolling balls at different speeds and determining the strength of the push require to achieve a certain speed. Pushes can move objects. Declan was our investigator for the use of pulls to move objects. He demonstrated using a string tied around a chair so he could pull it to a different spot. Pulls can move objects. People push. Wind can push. People pull. Gravity can pull! The pull of gravity can push and pull a person on swing. Key vocabulary this week---push, pull, gravity, direction, speed, motion, rolling, slope, collide. The students built a variety of ramps and rolled balls and cars down them to observe the pull of gravity. They had a complete blast working with their table mates on ramp construction. Question--What could we do to change the speed of the object rolling down a slope? Students experimented with raising the slope using book stacks. They found that the higher the slope, the faster the object moved. The activity Contraption and Marble Works and Legos were introduced as Choice time activities to continue experimentation. Students worked in their science notebooks to draw sketches of their ramps and record their thoughts and reflections. Next week--more on colliding objects.
Technology: Whole group in reading worked on the apps Learn Consonant Blends and Oz Phonics for cvc, ccvc, cvcc and short vowel recognition as well as consonant blends and word order. In whole group math, students worked on the apps Let's Do Math and Subitize Tree for providing the missing addend, number bonds to 10 and visual number recognition and number patterns.
Literature: "Knuffle Bunny," "Edwina the Dinosaur That Didn't Know She Was Extinct," "Leonardo," "That Big Guy Took My Ball," "Hop On Pop," "The Cat In The Hat," "Let's Find Out--Dr Seuss," "Telling Time," "Clocks and Calendars," "Roll, Slope and Slide," "Force and Motion," "Pushes and Pulls."
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