<p style="text-align: center">Important Dates</p>
Monday, March 15<sup>th</sup>:  Junior Achievement Volunteers in the Classroom

Friday, March 26<sup>th</sup>:  Young Authors Writing Pieces Due

March 29<sup>th</sup> – April 2<sup>nd</sup>:  NO SCHOOL:  Spring Break

**On Monday, I will provide information for students about the Young Authors Competition.  Every student is required to submit an entry by Friday, March 26<sup>th</sup>.  This will be your child’s language arts homework.**
<p style="text-align: center">Instruction for the Week</p>


On Monday, volunteers from the Junior Achievement program will come in and work on Social Studies/Community activities.  The volunteers are part of the University of Chicago Alumni program.

<strong>Literacy:</strong>

Reading

On Tuesday, we will start back on our Daily 5/Guided Reading.  Last week, we practiced building our stamina up again to handle working independently.  The students are ready again.  Each reading group will work on their own instructional level and work on the reading strategies of predicting and summarizing.  Students will have comprehension questions and meet with me daily to discuss their book.

Writing

In Writer’s Workshop, we will continue to work on the 6+1 Traits of writing.  We will continue to focus on improving our writing with an emphasis on IDEAS.  I will provide practice with examples of writing that is not specific enough and students will work together to expand on the topic

Phonics

Students will practice identifying silent letters in words and recognizing words with the final /k/ sound.  They will then take these lessons and practice them during the Daily 5.

<strong>Mathematics</strong>

This week will begin our Unit 7 in our Everyday Mathematics curriculum.  This unit focuses on multiplication and division (something they are very familiar with!).  During this unit, I will be testing students on their basic facts up to 12.  Students should be able to know these facts automatically.  Please work on these facts with them for the rest of the month.

<strong>Science</strong>

Last week, we did not get a chance to work on our Science unit due to birthdays, my absence, and the students overall restlessness from ending the ISAT.  This week, we will return our investigation of detecting calcite.

<strong>Social Studies</strong>

Students are beginning to work on a small group class project on landforms.  Students will create 3D landforms with their group members using the information they have learned about landforms.  Students love this project and learn to cooperate with each other.

<strong>Homework:</strong>

Tentative Plans for Homework this Week:

I normally do not give you advanced homework notices because this can change so please continue to look at your child’s planner for updates.

Read for 30 minutes everyday

Begin working on Young Authors Writing

Everyday Math Homelinks:

Tuesday:  7.1

Wednesday:  7.2

Thursday:  7.3

Have a wonderful week!

Sincerely,

Ms. Prasad-Heintz