Mrs. Brenner’s Weekly Newsletter: February 27, 2012
*Remember to study math facts, spelling list and to read and record 20 minutes or more in your reading log DAILY.
Your child should complete 3 or 4 of the spelling activities. The pages with the choices of activities will remain in your child’s folder. Your children have been doing a fantastic job on our weekly spelling tests.
This week’s spelling words: again off went old number
scold comb slick fond tilt
Bonus word: integration
This week in class we will focus on:
Language Arts: We will continue to focus on informational writing, similes, onomatopoeias, parts of speech, commas, quotation marks, plural nouns, and pronouns.
Math: We will complete our unit on measurement-length and using a ruler – inches, feet, centimeters, and meters. Our new unit will be geometry with solid figures. We will work on counting the number of vertices, faces, and corners on solid shapes.
Congratulations to Raaid and his family. They welcomed a new baby boy on Tuesday, February 21. We discovered that Nelson was our shortest baby at 12 inches and Nevin was our longest baby at 22 inches. Here is what else we learned:
12 inches – Nelson
17 inches – Dylan, Ria
18 ½ inches – Abby, Libby
19 inches – Ashley, Nyla
19 ½ inches – Michael, Jeremy
20 inches – De’Marion
20 ½ inches – Ellie
21 inches – Ammar, Arielle, Austin, Danilo, Joshua, Raaid
21 ½ inches – Alex, Amoi
22 inches – Nevin
Social Studies: We will continue to read about Jackie Robinson and compare and contrast him to Martin Luther King. The children have had some wonderful discussions about these two men and the ideas of segregation and integration.
*Please remember to send a snack in every day.
*Remember to send a note about transportation changes. I do not always have a chance to check my e-mails before the end of the day.
*Car Rider Parents: Please remember to post your number in your windshield.
*Please send a jacket or coat with your child. As we know the temperature can change very quickly. Also remember to put your child’s name in their jackets, coats, sweatshirts, and sweaters.
Upcoming events:
Feb. 28, 2012-March 1, 2012. Read Across America
We will go to the book fair on Tuesday. Your child will be permitted to go to the book fair to purchase book during the week. Because of the book fair, we will not be going to the media center to check out books. We have AR books in the classroom and as always, please visit the public library.
Please take note of dress up days in honor of Dr. Seuss
Tuesday, Feb. 28- Wear green in honor of Green Eggs and Ham
Wednesday, Feb. 29-Wear your clothes backwards, two different shoes, etc. in honor of Wacky Wednesday.
Thursday, March 1-Wear crazy socks in honor of The Foot Book and
Fox "n Socks Or Wear a creative, crazy hat in honor of The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins (no baseball caps)
Friday, March 2- Wear a costume for Cat and the Hat or another Dr. Seuss Character
*** You may also wear your costume for Bingo for Books***
March:
March 14 - Stevi B’s
March 21 - Report cards and Spring pictures
