This week and next week she will be working on:
Math:
Thursday and Friday: Transformations of 2D shapes. Your student will need to know the vocabulary: translation, rotation, and reflection and how they are related to shapes and geometry.
Monday and Tuesday: Subdividing shapes to get down to the basic shape.
Wednesday: Transformation Test
Thursday: Pi Day! She will begin the unit on Circles. It is a VERY short unit so a test will follow very quickly and probably Monday, 3/18.
Small Group:
Learning more about figurative language and creating idiom posters for them right now. They will soon begin working on a figurative language comic strip.
The Barnes and Noble Book Fair is coming! Ms. Margerum and I will be reading for about 15 minutes on Saturday at 1:30. Please make plans to join us! We'd love to see you there!
As you know, we have a field trip coming up to Nauticus at the end of the month. The cost is $45 and includes the charter bus to the museum, admission to both the museum and a retired battleship, a hands on activity, and a movie. It is a great field trip and we are hoping everyone can go. If you would like to be considered for a chaperone, please let me know as soon as possible. So far, I only have 1 permission slip indicating interest returned.
Our Dancing Classrooms culminating event is scheduled for Tuesday, March 12 at 1:20 in the Gym. We expect for it to last about an hour. We hope you can join us to see all the exciting dances your child has learned over the last 10 weeks. A letter with more information on it was sent home yesterday (Tuesday, March 6) please see it for more information on appropriate dress for students for the event.
A family workshop will be held on Tuesday, March 26 from 6-7. The three topics are "Screen Time", "The ABC's of Testing", and "Safety". A green form went home today for you to indicate your interest in which workshops you plan to attend. Please have your child return it to the school by Friday, March 22.