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.
