Reminders for Friday, April 12th
- Remember your Chromebook and charger every day!
- Homework packet due Friday, 4/19
- It will come home Monday, 4/8
- Math review packet due by Friday, 4/19
- This reviews all skills taught so far in math. It is intended to help your child refresh these skills prior to MAP testing. We will also be reviewing at school.
- Quarter 3 Report Cards will be available on ParentVUE on Monday, 4/15
- Reading quiz on Tuesday, 4/15
- The student will place the events of a fiction story in the correct sequence (beginning, middle, end).
- MAP testing on Wednesday, 4/17 & Friday, 4/19
- Wear purple on Wednesday, 4/17 to show support for the Military Child!
- During the Month of the Military Child, Purple Up! Day recognizes some of the military's most unsung heroes - their children.
- Matter test on Thursday, 4/18 (science)
- Field Trip on Wednesday, 4/24
- Bagged lunch with disposable items
- Long pants, tall socks
- Check your child from ticks when they return home!
- If wanted, sunscreen MUST be applied at home; school adults cannot help apply.
- Patriotic Symbols test on Monday, 4/29 (social studies)
- PEP (Parents as Educational Partners)
- There are monthly events for grown-ups/caregivers of English Language (EL students). They are hosted by Mrs. Gustilo and Mrs. Chatila, two of our EL teachers at PNB. All meetings are held at Pinebrook.
- Weekly Reminder
- Return library books by Mondays on B Weeks!
- If you do not return your books, you will not be allowed to pick out new books.
- Wear sneakers on Thursday and Friday for P.E.
- If you do not wear sneakers/tennis shoes/trainers or closed-toed shoes (NO boots), you will not be allowed to participate in P.E. This is a rule from the P.E. teachers.
- Ice Cream is available at lunch on Wednesdays for $1.
- LCPS allows students to purchase ice cream any day of the week.
- As a team, second grade is encouarged to get ice cream on Wednesday to help prevent any chaos (like buying 4 ice creams).
- House Spirit Days are on Fridays.
- Wear your house color on Fridays to show house spirit or wear Pinebrook colors (navy and maroon) to show school spirit.
- Parents can join at lunchtime on Tuesdays and Thursdays!
- Please be sure to bring your ID card to get in the front door.
- Our lunch is 12:45 - 1:15pm.
- Pinebrook Family Resources Page
- Information on how to study, testing, online programs, etc.
- School Store is open on Fridays!
- Everything is between $1-4 dollars. Most things are $2.
- My expectations are that the kids check in and drop off their backpacks FIRST and that all of their school store items stay in their backpacks.
SEL/Morning Meeting - Family Communication (Unit 4); we took a short quiz on our emotional situations knowledge that we had built up during SEL lessons.
Math - We continued to review for MAP with place value and regrouping. We did one-day lessons on fractions and geometric shapes. We will do a one-day lesson on symmetry (mirror images/reflections) and congruency (same shape, different form) to prepare as well. We will return to these topics in detail after testing. We will also start learning about data and graphing data next week.
Phonics - We learned about oo, u /oo/ (book, football) and oo /long u/ (broom, moon). New heart words were floor, poor, door.
Reading - We read nonfiction books about insects to build our background knowledge and started putting events from a fictional story into correct order. We will continue this next week.
Writing - We learned about homonyms - same sound, same spelling, multiple meanings. Next week, the kids will be working in their odds and evens groups. Odds will be with me reviewing plural nouns while evens will be with Mrs. H practicing their sentences.
Science - We learned about the three states of matter - solid, liquid, gas. We will review this information and learn how the states change - evaporation, melting, freezing, condensation - next week.
Have a wonderful weekend,
