week of March 11, 2019

Mrs. Borden and Mrs. Jones’ Newsletter (week of March 11, 2019)

Writing- Once again, the writing for this week’s topic was great!  We wrote about an activity that we like to do with someone special.  We had people going to Hershey, the beach, the zoo, to a relative’s house, and a few other adventures.  We do have to remember to put a period to end our sentences and use the two-finger spacing between our words sometimes, but we all stayed on topic and made wonderful illustrations to match the stories!  We will continue to work in our Building Writers book several days a week and will be wrapping up the Narrative Writing portion shortly.

Reading- We will be starting a new unit, Unit 5 and our essential question for the unit is: How do people and things get from here to there? We have a new story this week and it is: Max Takes the Train it is an animal fantasy story.  Our essential question is: What are different ways of going places?  Our amazing words are: plane, jetway, subway, tunnel, ferryboat, sidecar.  We will be working on realism versus fantasy and we will be working on asking and answering questions.  Keep on practicing those sight words and reading together each night for your book logs!

Math- We are starting Unit 5, Understanding Subtraction.  Unit 4 was a success with addition and we mastered putting things together, ways to make 5, the vocabulary of sum, plus sign, and equal sign, and counting groups of objects.  We will be introducing the vocabulary of: difference, minus sign, and the concept of taking away and what it left.  In Spring Math, we are counting dots (0-20) and writing the correct number as quickly and accurately as we can. 

Science/Social Studies- We were finally able to have our lesson with the Bloomsburg University students that was postponed from March 1 due to the weather.  The story that we heard was Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax and we were thrilled to be able to complete a fun activity to go along with the classic.  We will also be exploring Spring and don’t forget Daylight Savings time is this weekend!  Our weekly reader explored the different types of weather that come with March.

Important Dates:

Monday, March 11- Reading Log for Newspaper in Education Week is due

Friday, March 15- Spartan Dress Down Day ($1 donation)

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! All of the donations for our basket for the PTO basket auction are much appreciated!  We are so excited to put this basket together and can’t wait to show off the final product at the auction in April.  Many thanks!