Welcome Back! Week of 4/9

I hope you had a fabulous Spring Break and are ready to take on the remainder of the school year! 

Important Items:

We Care Wednesday is April 18th- Earth Day is Sunday, April 22^nd. In honor of this, Webber Student Council invites everyone to wear green and blue to represent the colors of the Earth. Monetary donations will be used to purchase a tree to be planted at Webber.

Pen and Pencil Drive-Student Council will be collecting new pens and pencils during the month of April to send to schools in Kenya. We appreciate your support!

Reminder that all snacks need to be TREE NUT FREE. This is more than just peanut free. Thank you! 

Learning This Week:

In reading students will...

• Use sight words to read fluently
• create new reading goals for Q4
• work to understand why we re-read
• make movies in their minds to picture what's happening
• act out stories to understand
• keep track of who's talking in their books

In writing students will...

• write beginnings that have action and dialogue or feelings
• get serious about spelling
• use a checklist to set goals
• use partners to fix up our writing
• celebrate our best realistic fiction work 

In math students will...

• think about what they do at each hour of the day
• tell and write time in half hours
• practice telling and writing time
• explore squares and rectangles
• explore triangles and circles

Scientists will begin to learn about light and shadows.

Week of 3/26...

March is Reading Month Events

• Wacky Wednesday, March 28 - Dress as your favorite Book Character day
• Students will meet a K-9 Unit dog and handler on Thursday
• We will be watching Secret Life of Pets on Thursday as a wrap up to our MIRM fun. This movie is rated PG. If you do not want your child watching this please email me as soon as possible. 
• We will have our Last "Furry Friend" Reading on Wednesday March, 28th. 

Students have a half day of school on Thursday 3/29 and No school on Friday 3/30. Spring Break is from Friday 3/30-Friday 4/6. 

Week of 3/19...

March is Reading Month (Week of March 19-23)

• On Friday, 3/23 we will have a classroom Read-in ‘Paw’ty. Students can wear pajamas, bring in their favorite stuffed pet and enjoy a ‘Doggy Bag” of treats which will be provided! 
• Students will get to meet a therapy dog on Tuesday
• Wacky Wednesday, March 21 - College Day 

Learning This Week

Readers will...

• think about the story to problem solve tricky words
• keep track of whats happening in their story and retell
• think about what kind of word would fit when they're stuck

Writers will...

• write a review of a place to eat, a place to visit, a movie to see, and a toy to buy
• create class anthologies 
• immerse into realistic fiction 

Mathematicians will...

• look at math in real world situations
• review comparison bars
• take their unit 6 test (will come home next week)
• take their quarter 3 asssessment

In social studies students will learn about more great leaders this week - Martin Luther King Jr., Susan B. Anthony, and Helen Keller. 

Photos from Last Week

Mrs. Peruski, one of our guest readers!

Lucky Charms marshmallow comparing activity to celebrate St. Patricks day!

Celebrating our non-fiction unit by reading and teaching new information to our kindergarten friends!

Week of 3/12 News

Webber Discovery Fair

Webber’s annual Discovery Fair is scheduled for Friday, March 16 from 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.  This family event is a celebration of science, technology, and the arts. This year’s Fair will include a student art show, live animal exhibit, fifth grade jet toy demonstrations, LOHS and Waldon Robotics teams, a Home Depot kids’ workshop, a visual art immersion program, individual student projects of discovery, engineering challenges, and more!

We are in need of a few more parent volunteers to make this evening a success. If you are willing to help out for just a small portion of the evening, please click and sign up on the link below. Thank you!

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March is Reading Month Events this Week

• One day this week students will swap with another class and listen to a teacher read his or her favorite animal read aloud
• Wacky Wednesday, March 14 - Dress to Impress Day (donations to Oakland County Animal Shelter)
• 3/16 - Furry Friday Reading (bring in a stuffed animal to snuggle up with as we read)

Please sign up for spring parent-teacher conferences if you have not yet done so here. 

Learning This Week

Readers will...

• do a triple check to self monitor their reading
• make a plan for their reading time
• get help when they need it

Mathematicians will...

• collect, organize, represent, and interpret data with three categories
• solve comparing problems
• learn the math vocabulary words most and fewer 

Writers will...

• make sure their sentences are not too long by adding punctuation
• review their own reviews using a checklist
• rehearse their book reviews with a strong speaker voice
• read their book reviews to Mrs. Bruce's class

Scientists will...

• join a band with one other students from our class and each make their own instrument that produces a different sound. 
• perform their instruments in front of our class
• share how sound is made from their instrument
• display their instruments at the Discovery Fair outside of our classroom

In the photos below mathematicians sorted their given materials and organized their data to make comparisons!

News for 3/5

Celebrating Curiosity

Webber’s annual Discovery Fair is scheduled for Friday, March 16 from 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.  This family event is a celebration of science, technology, and the arts. This year’s Fair will include a student art show, live animal exhibit, fifth grade jet toy demonstrations, LOHS and Waldon Robotics teams, a Home Depot kids’ workshop, a visual art immersion program, individual student projects of discovery, engineering challenges, and more. What will YOU discover?

March is Reading Month Information

• Week of March 5-9
• Wacky Wednesday: March 7 Mismatched Day.  To participate students should bring in a small donation from loose change to a few dollars.  All funds collected will be donated to the Oakland County Animal Shelter in Pontiac.  It is going to be a ‘Dog vs. Cat’ collection.  Student council members will be coming around in the morning to collect the money from each class.  Your students will choose if they like dogs or cats best, by placing their donation into the correct bin. The totals collected for ‘Dog vs. Cat’ will be announced on the News Show each Friday.
• Oakland County Animal Shelter will be visiting Webber on Friday,  March 9.  The students will have the opportunity to meet a furry friend and hear about how to be a responsible pet owner, pet care and correct way to approach a stray animal. Dogs will be leashed at all times. Please let me know of any pet allergies. 
• 3/9 - Furry Friday Reading (bring in a stuffed animal to snuggle up with as we read), first at home reading BINGO page due!

Learning This Week

• In reading students will...
• read a nonfiction book aloud like an expert to a kindergarten student
• be the boss of their own reading saying "I can do this!"
• use everything they know to solve a word
• In math students will...
• take the unit 5 math test (you can look for this coming home on Friday)
• explore representing data
• organize categorical data
• use stair stepper tools to represent data
• In writing students will...
• make anthologies and celebrate all they've learned so far in review writing
• write a book review *please bring in 1 favorite book from home!*
• give sneak peek summaries in book reviews
• make book reviews just right - not too long, not too short
• In social studies students we will begin to learn about American Leaders. We will learn about George Washington and Abraham Lincoln this week. We will also study what makes a great leader. 
• In science we will continue to learn about how we hear sound and why we feel vibrations.

In this science experiment, students hit a hanger onto a wall and felt vibrations. They also heard a high pitched dinging sound when they pressed the string up to their ears.