News for 2/25

Notes from Ms. Rau

• Please sign up for Spring Parent Teacher Conferences here
• Webber Discovery Fair: Webber’s annual Discovery Fair is scheduled for Friday, March 8 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, LOCS Robotics teams, Lego projects from Brick It Up, a kids’ workshop, make and take projects, an engineering challenge, and more! Your child is invited to participate by submitting an individual Project of Discovery; entry forms came home this week. RSVPs are not necessary. We’ll see you there!
• March is Reading Month: Be a Bookanner! Where books arrggh the treasure! Please check your students FROG binder for notes/flyers regarding the reading challenge and a hard copy of the calendar below. 

M.I.R.M. Dates:

• 3/1 - March is Reading Month Kickoff Assembly (wear Webber gear)
• 3/4 - Dress like a Pirate Day (students will be given eye patches)
• 3/6, 3/13, 3/20, 3/27 - Wacky Wednesday Bucks for Books - $1 donation recommended (see calendar)
• 3/8, 3/15, 3/22, 3/29 - Friday Read In's (send in a beach towel)
• 3/29 PJ or Dress like a Pirate day (students are given a pirate themed snack)

Important Dates:

• 3/8 - Discovery Fair
• 321 & 3/29 - Half days for students
• 3/21 & 3/26 - Spring Parent Teacher Conferences
• 4/1-4/5 Spring Break

Learning This week:

• Writers will...
• write reviews to persuade others
• talk right to readers and remember to talk back
• make comparisons
• hook your reader
• Readers will...
• use drama to bring read aloud to life
• celebrate learn about the world reading
• be the boss of their own reading
• use everything they know to solve a word
• "check it!" to self monitor
• Mathematicians will...
• add and subtract 10's
• add and subtract multiples of 10's
• focus on mathematical practices
• take the unit 5 test
• Scientists will...
• understand and learn body parts that help animals survive
• understand and learn behaviors that help animals survive
• draw and label the parts that help one animal we've studied survive
• In phonics we will...
• need powerful tools to get the job done
• make our own individual vowel team charts
• learn the ou vowel team and search for ou words in our books
• sort phonographs with vowel teams

Pictures From Last Week's Learning:

Judging other's collections in writing workshop and providing reasons why we disagree. 

Counting a large number of objects in math by sorting into groups of 10's. 

News for 2/20

Notes from Ms. Rau

• Please sign up for Spring Parent Teacher Conferences here
• Webber Discovery Fair: Webber’s annual Discovery Fair is scheduled for Friday, March 8 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, LOCS Robotics teams, Lego projects from Brick It Up, a kids’ workshop, make and take projects, an engineering challenge, and more! Your child is invited to participate by submitting an individual Project of Discovery; entry forms came home this week. RSVPs are not necessary. We’ll see you there!

Important Dates:

• 3/1 - March is Reading Month Kickoff Assembly - WEAR WEBBER GEAR
• 3/4 - Dress like a Pirate Day
• 3/6, 3/13, 3/20, 3/27 - Wacky Wednesday Bucks for Books (stay tuned for more info)
• 3/8, 3/15, 3/22, 3,29 - Friday Read In's (send in a beach towel  & small stuffed animal)
• 3/8 - Discovery Fair
• 3/21 & 3/26 - Spring Parent Teacher Conferences

Learning This week:

• Writers will...
• expect disagreement in their opinion writing
• award the last place item in their collection
• bolster arguments in their writing
• Readers will...
• read with feeling
• read like a writer
• explain and think about key words
• Mathematicians will...
• solve problems with 3 addends
• count with groups of 10
• practice numbers through 120
• add and subtract 10's
• Scientists will...
• study parent vs. baby animals
• study if all animals of one type look alike
• understand that body parts help animals survive
• In phonics we will...
• build words and pay attention to vowel teams
• learn new snap words
• watch out for the words that don't work the same way

News for 2/11

Notes from Ms. Rau

• Valentine's Day Celebration - Our party will be Thursday, February 14th from 9:30-10:30. Students will decorate paper bags to hold their valentines in class. We will pass out valentine cards at the end of our party. When filling out valentines cards please do not write a name in the TO section. Please only have your student write their name in the from section. This makes passing out valentines cards much quicker. We have 25 students in our class :) 
• Valentines Day Read In - On 2/14 please bring in a small stuffed animal that fits inside your backpack. We will have a read in with Ms. Weaver's class in the afternoon! 
• FILL A SHEET -GET A TREAT: Its time again for a Box Tops for Education Collection. Each student who turns in a completed collection sheet  will receive a special prize. February 11^th -15^th 
• Please sign up for Spring Parent Teacher Conferences here

Important Dates:

• 2/14 - Valentine's Day Celebration 9:30-10:30 & Read In 1:30-2:30
• 2/15 - 1/2 day for students
• 2/18-2/19 Mid Winter Break - No School for Students
• 3/21 & 3/26 - Spring Parent Teacher Conferences

Learning This week:

• Writers will...
• explain judgments in a convincing way
• expect disagreement in their opinion writing
• award the last place item in their collection
• Readers will...
• reread a page to find the just right sound
• find interesting things to share
• read with feeling
• Mathematicians will...
• practice with teen problems
• solve problems with 3 addends
• solve a valentines day higher level math story problem
• count with groups of 10
• Scientists will...
• study polar bear features
• study penguin features
• study parent vs. baby animals
• study if all animals of one type look alike
• In phonics we will...
• build words and pay attention to vowel teams
• learn new snap words

Pictures from last week's learning:

 "Missing Partner" Game

Celebrating our Nonfiction Writing Unit with Mrs. Garrett's Class

 

Taste test with Gummy Bears to kick off our opinion unit. We learned to use the words "I think" and "because." We also learned that the more reasons you give, the more you will convince people to agree with you :) 

Judging our collections in Writing Workshop

 

Finding key words in nonfiction books

 
 
 
 

Working in our rug clubs in phonics being "word builders."