Friday Reminders 3/25/22

Friday, March 25, 2022

We enjoyed having our spring class party this afternoon! Thank you to Mrs. Lemley, Mrs. O'Connell, and Mrs. Cortes for all your planning.

Reminders for Friday, March 25th

  • Please remember to bring your Chromebook and charger to school each day!
  • 30 minutes of RAZ kids due by Friday, 4/1
  • American Symbols quiz on Thursday, 3/31 (social studies)
    • Bald eagle, American flag, and Washington Monument -- Why are they important to the United States?
  • Hyperboles/Exaggerations quiz on Friday, 4/1 (reading)
    • Example: This backpack weighs a ton! -- The backpack is very heavy.
  • Spring Break 4/11 - 4/18
    • We will return to school on Tuesday, 4/19
    • Monday, 4/18 is a teacher work day.
Notes
  • **If you feel strongly about your child continuing to wear their mask throughout the day, please do let me know so that I can reinforce your decision with your student. Thank you!
    • Just to clarify - I cannot make your student wear their mask, but I can remind them and let you know if they are repeatedly choosing not to wear it.
  • Scholastic Book Fair is coming back to Pinebrook! It will be open from March 11 - 18. We will do a preview in school. You can check out the schedule here.

Week Overview
Morning Meeting/SEL (Social-Emotional Learning) - We discussed ways to be a good friend and how our actions and words can impact others (positive and negative).
Handwriting - We learned the letters "u" and "w" in cursive.
Reading -  We identified dialogue in texts - quotation marks, dialogue tags (said, yelled, whispered, etc.), speech bubbles.
Writing -  We continued to work on our typing skills while working on our fiction stories. We will publish these next week and start learning about and writing poems.
Math - We measured to the nearest pound and to the nearest 10 degrees (temperature). Next week, we will start learning how to read and create graphs to show data.
Science/Social Studies - We wrapped up our states of matter unit in science. Next week, we will learn about the importance of several Americans symbols - the flag, bald eagle, and the Washington Monument.

Have a wonderful weekend,