Weekly Update

News To Know

• Wednesday is St. Patrick's Day. Don't forget to have your little one wear at least one item of green!
• We are creating a sticker collection! Please allow your little darling to bring some in to add to the class collection.
• Spring Pictures will be March 29. More info to follow.
• Class Books came in! They are amazing! Thanks for your support!
• Be sure to sign your little darling's book authorization so that they can bring home the reading group book for the week.
• We are still missing a few signed report cards. Please be sure to return a signed copy as soon as possible.
• Townhall Meeting being hosted by the IWIA Governing Board, March 23 @ 7pm in the MPR
• Don't forget to recycle paper at school! The red dumpster near the pond earns money once per quarter based on the weight of recycled paper. So bring your newspapers, magazines, junk mail, etc! No cardboard.

Academic Update

Last week: Our "It Takes a Village" unit continued with an exploration of types of and uses of transportation. We learned the definition of transportation and vehicle, sorted vehicles, and classified vehicles by movement types. We created a great list of vehicles and read many books about transportation. On Friday, we had a paper airplane contest! In math, we started focusing more heavily on reading, writing and solving number stories, comparing 2D and 3D shapes, worked more on coin exchanges and started our class collection. (Please keep saving stickers!) Our literacy lessons focused on opposites, homophones and homonyms, and the sounds for dr and tr.

This week: We'll be building more understanding of how communities function through learning about community helpers and how people earn, save and spend money. We'll also be learning more about St. Patrick's Day, and imagining what our future careers will be. We will also learn about the quarter, build 3D shapes, build addition skills, learn about place value and learn about "name collection". In literacy, we'll look for things we'd like to change around our school and write persuasive letters, explore r-controlled vowels and compare and contrast sight words. We'll also be focusing on the attributes of patience and appreciation this week.