Read Across America

Our first week back from February break will be another busy one!  On Wednesday, March 2nd, our school will participate in Read Across America Day. This is a day to celebrate Dr. Seuss' birthday and to celebrate reading!  We will have a school wide assembly in the morning, followed by guest readers visiting our classroom throughout the day.  This week we made special hats to wear to the school wide assembly to celebrate Read Across America Day. This year's theme is "Wild About Reading" so our hats are decorated with animal prints. Be sure to ask your child about the animal print design on his or her hat!

We will be traveling to the Flynn Theater on Thursday, March 3rd to see "Frindle".  We will leave around 9 am and be back for lunch and recess. Frindle is the story of a boy who decides to start calling a pen a frindle.  This causes much chaos in his school and his town.  We have read the book already so we are looking forward to seeing it brought to life on stage!  Today we enjoyed a companion workshop the Flynn provided for us to support our understanding of Thursday's performance.   Everyone had a terrific time during the workshop, reading from a script from the show and acting out parts of the book, and we are very excited to see the show on March 3rd.

This week we finished our measurement unit in math and will be moving on to a new unit after the February break that will focus on multiplication and division.  We also finished our persuasive speeches and will begin a new writing unit through which we will be adapting fairy tales and writing our own fairy tales.  We will continue studying characters and how characters change throughout the month of March.  In science we will begin learning about heredity and variation of traits.

We look forward to meeting with everyone in March for parent/teacher conferences.  If you have not already done so, please visit our google site to sign up for a date and time.
We hope everyone has a happy, relaxing and safe winter break!