Mrs. Flick's Facts
February 15, 2018
Important Dates
February
now -23rd- Pennies for Patients Collection in support of OJR Middle School student and former NC student Makenna Massi- information will be sent home in backpacks on Friday 2/2.
16- No School for Students- Teacher Inservice
19- No School for Students- President's Day
21- Giovanni's fundraiser for Relay for Life in honor of Mackenna Massi- mention her between 4-10 PM and 10% of proceeds will go to her Relay for Life Team
21- PTO meeting 7 pm
March
7 & 8- 1/2 day for students (11:50 Dismissal)
Parent/Teacher Conferences
9- PTO Bingo Night (admission is a $5 prize in a brown bag so no one can see what it is!)
22- Math and Literacy Night 6:00-7:30PM
28- April 2- Spring Break- No School
April
9-19th PSSA Testing window for 3rd Grade
13- PTO Parents Night Out 5-9 PM more info to come soon!
Upcoming Specials
Monday: NO SCHOOL
Tuesday: Day 4 Gym
Wednesday: Day 5 Library
Thursday: Day 1 Music
Friday: Day 2 Gym
Reminders!
-HOMEWORK is very important as it reinforces skills. Please be sure to check that your child has completed their nightly homework.
-Record that Reading!
EACH night the students should be recording their reading time on the November calendar page in their agendas. They know where this page is and should be able to record it themselves. An adult just needs to initial it each night :).
- Please send a snack with your child each day. Please do not send any drinks other than water- juices are sticky when they spill! Thank you! (remember that we are peanut and treenut free)
- Please check and sign your child's planner every night.
Math Updates
In Math this week, we started the week learning about how we can use the break apart strategy to solve larger multiplication facts such as 15 x 8. We then learned how and why parentheses are used in math problems as we worked to solve the problems by doing the work in the parentheses first. We ended our week with a two day lesson focusing on problem solving where the students had to write number stories that went along with number sentences that included parentheses. Next week we will finish up Unit 6 and our tentative testing dates are Friday 2/23 and the following Monday 2/26.
Building a READING LIFE
In Reading this week, we completed our Nonfiction Unit by taking a look at narrative nonfiction and hybrid nonfiction. We learned that narrative nonfiction tells a story, but the story is 100% true. We can apply our fictional reading strategies to help us read this type of nonfiction. We also learned about books that are both fiction and nonfiction- called hybrid nonfiction. Examples of this would be Magic School Bus books or I Survived books. When reading these books, students practiced identifying the true from the untrue facts. They could use the fiction strategies to understand the fiction pieces, but use their nonfiction strategies to collect facts that the author wanted them to learn as they read. We will begin our new fiction unit, Character Studies, next week.
Word Study
Our HFSW test was taken today! Next week will be another HFSW list because of the short week.
Monday nights- Students are to sort their words and record them in their notebooks. They are to also record their discovery or rule for the week.
Tuesday and Wednesday nights- Students should sort their words and read them as they sort. They can practice writing them on paper, whiteboards, or typing them. NO WRITTEN homework is required on these nights.
Thursday nights- Students are to ask an adult to quiz them on their words. They write the headers and then record the words as they are called out. The adult should use the notebook to correct the sort and ask the student to practice any words that were spelled incorrectly. This should be completed in the word study notebook in their binder.
The notebook will then be returned to school Friday morning and handed in to me :).
Friday- there will be a test given
This means that before the notebooks are handed in on Fridays there will be...
1. an answer key made of the sort and discovery in class during sort introductions
2. Monday night homework practiced/written sort and discovery.
3. a blind sort and written discovery on Thursday night.
Writing Long & Strong
This week in Writing, students spent the week publishing their informational books. When publishing, they chose pages appropriate for the text feature that they wanted to include in each chapter.
If you would still like to send me pictures for them to use I would be happy to print them out :).
Special Areas
In Gym, students are playing mat ball.
In Music, students are practicing their notes using apps on our iPads.
In Library, students are practicing using the Destiny catalog.
In Art, students are continuing to study the artist Keith Haring.
Scholastic Book Orders
If you are interested in placing book orders throughout the year from Scholastic, please go to www.club.scholastic.com
and use our class code: LDBK3
Giant Bonus Cards
Giant Bonus Cards are our BIGGEST fundraising source. The link to register Bonus Cards is: http://giantfoodstores.com/aplus/register-card/?_requestid=1157213
Cursive
We continue to work on our capitals!
TECH
This week we continued to use SEESAW and Google Classroom. We are reading non-fiction on READ WORKS and practicing our multiplication and problem-solving strategies on Front Row!
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