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BE Respectful, BE Responsible, BE Fair-Minded
Mrs. Brinkman [email protected]
679-9531
Mrs. Saya [email protected]
679-9530
Mrs. Workman- [email protected]
679-9548
Reading
This week we continued to review ourreading strategies! It is
amazing how manydifferent words the kids are paying attentionto in
order to expand their vocabulary! Theyare using these new words in
their writing andthat makes us so excited!
Homework
March Homework will be dueTuesday, April 2 nd!! Be sure that all
theshamrocks are colored, 10 activities arecomplete and mom/dad
signs theHomework sheet. We also LOVED thewonderful work you did at
home about
your President! We have learned so manyinteresting facts about
all of our pastleaders! Thank you parents for yoursupport with this
project.
Math
We started our new unit onmeasurement this week. The kids are
workingon meausring lengths using different unitsand measuring with
accuracy. We have beenpracticing by measuring different
thingsaround our classroom. It will be important forthe kids to
order three objects by length andto compare two objects indirectly
by using athird object. Also, we will be working on theidea that if
an object is measured by two
different people in the same units bothshould get the same
answer. The kids arereally having fun exploring in ourmeasurement
unit!
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WRITINGOur focus in writing has been to go
from good to great! We have been workinghard on incorporating
new and interestingwords into our writing as well as writingKNOCK
your SOCKS of topic sentences.This means starting our topic
sentence withthe who, what, when, where or a questionrelated to the
topic. We are getting reallygood at writing topic sentences that
captureour readers attention. We have also talkedabout writing for
a specific audience and howimportant it is for our writing to neat
andorganized.
Parent-Teacher Conferences YOU ROCK!!! We had 100% of our
first grade families attend parent-teacher conferences! This
goes to
show you what great partners you arein your childs education!!!
Thank you
for all of your support!!!
STAR OF THE WEEKMrs. Saya- Olivia Williams and Nate Compton
Mrs. Brinkman- Joseph Dahlberg and Corbin Marler
Mrs. Workman- Kara Frohling
Social Studies
Presidents Day!!! We have beenbuilding our schema around some of
thepresidents of the United States. GeorgeWashington and Abraham
Lincoln have beentwo presidents we have spent the most
timestudying. We have been identifying anddiscussing what qualities
have made themgood leaders. We cant wait to learn moreabout all of
the other presidents through thehomework assignment we sent home
onWednesday. Please help get your childresearch and learn more
about the presidentthey picked. Remember to have them draw
aportrait too!
MARK YOUR CALENDARS
February 29 th - President homeworkassignment DUE
March 1 st - February homework DUE
March 2 nd- Schools on the MoveCalendar DUE
March 7 th - Class picture day
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CANS FOR CASH!!!!!
Our Cans for Cash bin islooking a little bare. Lets putPonderosa
on the map and raise atruckload of money to support acharity, cause
or country still to bedetermined. If you have cans you aresaving,
please send them into school ina garbage bag. Thanks so much!
LETSGO PANDAS!!!
HEALTH AND WELLNESS
Remember that our Schools on theMove calendars are due on MARCH
5th. If
you have been participating be sure to update your calendar! We
are proud of you for tryingto be HEALTHY and FIT!!!
