Monday, March 8, 2010

Gazette Memo Mar 8-12

We will NO longer be doing Vocabulary Word Study anymore. I will now send home a sheet once a week called “Keeping Skills Sharp.” This will be used as extra credit and must be turned in by Fridays for credit.

Since the EOG’s are a little over 2 months away, we will begin our cram EOG session! As a reward for students who pass, I am in the process of collecting prizes for passing scores (3’s and 4’s). This can get pretty expensive, so I am asking for your help. You can do so by donating $1-$3 prizes from now until the week of the EOG’s. I would greatly appreciate it and the kids will too. I tell them constantly that hard work will always be rewarded (a life skill I hope they keep once they leave me;)

Cabbage plants went home on Friday. I ask that you please take pictures of your child keeping their little baby alive and after 6-8 weeks, when the cabbage is ready to be harvested, take one last and final picture. Your child can keep a daily log about how they cared for their plant and kept it growing. Each year, Bonnie Plants distributes free cabbage plants to third graders across the country to foster an interest in gardening and the environment. Students in these third grade classrooms each get their very own cabbage to plant, take care of and harvest. The cabbages produce oversized heads, making the process even more exciting for kids. As part of the program, Bonnie gives a $1,000 award to one student in each state. Through the annual Cabbage Program, at Bonnie hope to share our love of gardening, as well as inspire kids to develop an interest in nature and the outdoors. Now entering in its 9th year, the program has been an exciting and rewarding venture - just look at these pictures to see some of the young gardeners!
Objectives this week:

*Math- multiplication and division word problems, estimation, elapsed time, finding the unknown in a number sentence, representing fractions concretely and symbolically, using area or region models and set models of fractions to explore part-whole relationships, basic properties of addition and multiplication.
*Reading- continuing book clubs, asking open-ended questions, understanding lesson or message (Think of a familiar fairy tale. How many different lessons can you infer from that fairy tale? Share each lesson OR How can you group the different lessons we have learned from these stories into different categories?)
*Writing-Poetry (couplets): Lunch bag poems, practicing typing on Type to Learn!!!
*Science- Plants: Observe and measure how the quantities and qualities of nutrients, light, and water in the environment affect plant growth. Observe and describe how environmental conditions determine how well plants survive and grow in a particular environment. Investigate and describe how plants pass through distinct stages in their life cycle including: Growth, Survival, and Reproduction. Explain why the number of seeds a plant produces depends on variables such as light, water, nutrients, and pollination. Observe and discuss how bees pollinate flowers. Observe, describe and record properties of germinating seeds.

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