Glad to be having a full week of school!!  Don't forget that PTA is tonight!!

Language Arts:  We are reading our AR books and working on our Young Authors Books.  Students who brought in their Young Authors stories, shared with others.  Everyone worked on their books today in class.  Our readings this week for language arts will focus around "Earth Materials" readings and information.  We will be adding "science words" to our vocabulary word bank in our science books.

Homework:  Your child should be reading each night and working on their Young Authors Book.  They should be spending at least 30 minutes each night on their story.  They have two more weeks to complete this-due March 26th.  They also have three cursive worksheets that are due Friday.  Please help them as needed.

Math:  Lessons 7.6-7.9 will be completed this week-multiplication and division.  We will be taking a math fact test each day this week.  100 facts in 5 minutes-over half the class received 90% or better!!!  They have their first test with them today-practice at home!  The students who completed all 100 problems will be given more challenging problems and will be given 2 sheets-200problems!!!  We will have the Unit 7 assessment next Tuesday.

Homework:  Monday through Thursday and practice math facts!!

Art:  We will be finishing up our Tree Mural from last week.  We will also move on to our next lesson-"Country Landscape" this Wednesday.

Science:  Our Earth Materials Unit is under way!  We will be investigating our "mock rocks"-observing and describing.  (color, shape, texture, mass, etc.-describing properties.)  We will then be taking them apart and describing our observations.  As we add to our word bank, ask your children what new words they are learning.  (geologist,  entomologist, biology, properties, etc.)  Some students have brought in their own rocks-we will add rocks to our rock museum.

Social Studies:  We are working in our Map Essentials (what can your child tell you about our hemispheres-they should know about all 4 hemispheres, the boundaries and why we have them).  We will do some more map reading -looking at geography and communities in Australia.

Your students really like to have snack everyday-we are out of snacks as of today!!!  Please bring in and remind your child to put a sticker next to their name on our "snack chart"!  Thanks.

Hope you have a great week!  Jean Clement