Week of March 3rd - March 7th

Looking Ahead

March 3rd - March 7th

 

Reading Strategies

*Making Connections
*Fiction vs. nonfiction

*Retelling of a story/sequencing

*Visualizing

*Using our Reading Strategies to decode text
*Wondering

Phonics

Jolly Phonics - "ow" spelling of the long "o" sound

Writing Strategies/Grammar

 Final Blends - mp, st, lt, nd, nt, sp

Spelling Words

box

job

bulb

own

grow

elbow

yellow

other

were

snowman

The test on these words will be on Friday, March 7th
*Your students brought home their spelling test today - please make sure to review it with them and help them correct the words that they missed. It is very important that they study their words every night.

Math

We will be having our Unit 2 math test on Thursday. Please make sure to be going over their daily math pages with them at home. Students will be getting a "study guide" for homework this week and it will need to be completed over the weekend and brought back to school on Monday, March 3rd. We will also do review sheets in class on Monday and Tuesday.

Conferences

Conferences will be on an "as needed basis" so only those that I need to meet with will be getting an email to sign up. If you have any questions please let me know!

Scholastic Books!
I have created a link on my blog to Scholastic book orders! If you are interested in ordering any books for friends, relatives, or for your student, feel free to place an order online and use the code - LVB2T. When you order online, you can shop all Book Club flyers, enter your online orders, and pay with a credit or debit card. Every time you place your order online, you earn a FREE Book Pick and I earn a $3 coupon for our classroom! I will be receiving flyers that I will send home within the next few weeks if you don't want to do it online. If you have an questions please let me know!

Reading Calendars

February reading calendars were due this week - students can still turn them in next week! March calendars went home today! Happy Reading! :)

Important Dates

• Friday, February 28th - No School - Institute Day
• Friday, March 7th - End of Trimester 2
• Monday, March 10th & Tuesday, March 11th - P/T Conferences
• Tuesday, March 11th - Trimester 2 Report Cards Home
• Monday, March 17th - No School
• Tuesday, March 18th - No School - Teacher Institute
• Friday, March 21st - Movie Night

Reminders/Announcements

• Box Tops - Please continue to turn in any box tops that you have at home. This is a wonderful fundraiser that helps raise money for our school. Feel free to ask aunts, uncles, grandmas, grandpas, and neighbors! :) Classrooms with the most box tops will win a classroom party!
• Please send a note if your child will be picked up or taking another bus home.
• If you have any questions - please feel free to email me at alibeseth@ccsd66.org
• Please continue to practice sight words at home. Making flash cards is a great idea and allows for fun games, like memory!
• It's that time of year! Please make sure you are sending your student to school with a hat, gloves, and scarves! If the temperature is above 30 degrees, the kids will go outside for recess and I would hate for them to freeze. :)

 

I Hope you have a wonderful weekend!
Miss Beseth