Hi Room 14 Families,
February is upon us...as usual, there is a lot to look forward to!
Feb. 14th is Valentines Day. We will have a small celebration to share Valentines. If you choose to have your son/daughter bring valentines, please make sure they bring one for every student in the class. We have 32 students. I will send home a class list next week just in case your child is ambitious and wants to personalize their valentines.
Our field trip to the House of Blues is February 20th. We can take a few parents, so if you are interested, please let me know.
We are finishing up our body projects in life science. We will have one more class session to work on them in school, and then what is not complete will become homework. Completed body projects will be due to me on Monday, February 10th.
We will have a small written assignment to close up our Using Your Wits unit. The students will have to write about a person who they think used or uses their wits in a creative way. This will go home the week of Feb. 10th after the science project is turned in.
Other than that, all goes well. We have been working hard in class to write responses to literature using text based evidence to support our ideas. This is a big, lofty task, and I have to say that I am really proud of the way your kids have stepped up to improve their writing. Many of us did not do this kind of writing until middle or high school, but these kids are blowing me away each and every day.
Hope all is going well in your lives.
Tally Ho!
Phyllis
Friday, January 31, 2014
Wednesday, January 22, 2014
Hello Again!
Hi All,
It has only been two weeks since we returned from Winter Break, but it seems like much longer. We have been working hard, and keeping busy with our studies.
In language arts we continue with our unit called "Using Your Wits," and it has been really interesting to discuss the different ways people and animals must use their wits to solve problems, create things, and get out of sticky situations. A great home extension would be to discuss people who you feel use their wits in some way. To culminate the unit, we will have a mini project where the kids will have to research someone who used their wits in a creative way. You might be surprised at how much your kids like to discuss this idea.
Math has been both challenging and fun. We are exploring fractions, decimals, and percents to see how they are all different ways of expressing the same idea. If you come across a time where you use decimals ($), or percents in your life, let your child know!
We have also gotten right back into our science mixing, and although social studies has slowed down a bit, we are going to be learning about colonial America next.
Our next field trip will be to the House of Blues in February for an amazing African American History presentation. We will learn about history through music. Then, our final field trip will be CIMI camp in May. Needless to say, your kids are anxiously awaiting our next sleep away extravaganza.
For enrichment, we have Art with Emily on Monday afternoons, and technology on Tuesdays. We will begin Ballroom Dancing at the beginning of March. Our next book report will be on February 12, and they will do a project in class on their award winning/classic book. They should be well into reading that book by now.
Once again, thanks for being such great parents who send students to school who are motivated and ready to learn. You, and they, make my job a pleasure!
:)Phyllis
It has only been two weeks since we returned from Winter Break, but it seems like much longer. We have been working hard, and keeping busy with our studies.
In language arts we continue with our unit called "Using Your Wits," and it has been really interesting to discuss the different ways people and animals must use their wits to solve problems, create things, and get out of sticky situations. A great home extension would be to discuss people who you feel use their wits in some way. To culminate the unit, we will have a mini project where the kids will have to research someone who used their wits in a creative way. You might be surprised at how much your kids like to discuss this idea.
Math has been both challenging and fun. We are exploring fractions, decimals, and percents to see how they are all different ways of expressing the same idea. If you come across a time where you use decimals ($), or percents in your life, let your child know!
We have also gotten right back into our science mixing, and although social studies has slowed down a bit, we are going to be learning about colonial America next.
Our next field trip will be to the House of Blues in February for an amazing African American History presentation. We will learn about history through music. Then, our final field trip will be CIMI camp in May. Needless to say, your kids are anxiously awaiting our next sleep away extravaganza.
For enrichment, we have Art with Emily on Monday afternoons, and technology on Tuesdays. We will begin Ballroom Dancing at the beginning of March. Our next book report will be on February 12, and they will do a project in class on their award winning/classic book. They should be well into reading that book by now.
Once again, thanks for being such great parents who send students to school who are motivated and ready to learn. You, and they, make my job a pleasure!
:)Phyllis
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