Ask Your Child About
- Community Building
- Ms. Bird's monthly visit: conflict resolution
- Women's History Month: Malala Yousafzai, Queen Mary, Sheryl Sandberg, & Michelle Obama
- Literacy
- Reading
- Began new read aloud: Number the Stars, by Lois Lowry
- Patriots vs. Loyalists Group Debates
- Presented to 5th Grade Class
- Writing
- Began 2nd Informational Book
- Chose new Revolutionary War Subtopic
- Word Study
- Started List #10
- Open sort, closed sort, & rainbow writing
- Math
- Number Corner
- Finding equivalent fractions on a clock
- 10ths and 100ths Equivalent fraction game Teacher vs. Student (Don't Break 3.00)
- Using repeated addition to solve multiplication fraction story problems
- Using square tiles to represent this month's calendar pattern (function machine)
- Continued the great fraction race
- Constant Difference Subtraction Strategy
- Learned the Standard Algorithm for Subtraction
- Place Value & Addition Checkpoint
- Subtraction Strategies Work Sample
- Add, Round, & Compare Work Station game
- Social Studies
- Finished our 50 States Projects
- We will be presenting these in small groups on Monday!
- 50 Nifty United States Song
- We will be presenting this along with fun facts about the states we have been researching at next week's Friday gathering!
Important Information
- Trimester 3 began this week!
- Report cards will be e-mailed today
- Field Trip next Wednesday, March 30th
- Salt River Bay National Historic Park & Ecological Preserve
- We will depart campus at 9am and return at 11:30am
- You are welcome to stick around next Friday morning for our 4th Grade Friday Gathering presentation!
- Please try your best to have your child bring a REUSABLE water bottle to school - it is good for the environment and the kids are more responsible for them over the plastic ones. We keep finding plastic ones left all around the cubbies and on the ground. Thank you!




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