Happy Friday! March 2 – “Read Across America!” See the calendar sent out for the various activities and for celebrating reading this March. Continue reading One School One Book. The students are doing a great job getting every trivia question in the morning correct thus far.

Reading in the classroom – All February reading logs are due for “at home” reading.  We are continuing to discuss our historical fiction books in our book clubs, and I am reading Number the Stars. We are in great suspense right now — Will the soldiers catch Annamarie trying to get the important envelope to the Jews being helped to Sweden?

Math – Quiz 3 today, and we will have our test review on Monday, go over it on Wednesday as a class and in small groups, and then the final test on Wednesday or Thursday.

Writing – We are finishing up our Literary Essay next week, and will begin researching a chosen U.S. state soon.

Science – Experiments with the path of light and reflection.

Carnival Baskets – Carnival is scheduled for Saturday, March 24 11 – 12:30.   The Classroom Basket Committee decided to choose themes this year to make sure Alward had a wide range of items and would be aware of the allergies in each classroom. Instead of each classroom doing a different theme, the PTC has 2 classrooms working on the same theme to make a bigger basket. Please donate to this carnival fun! My room’s theme is “Summer Fun”. Anything summer-like is fine — big or small.  Items are due March 23

REMEMBER TO SIGN UP FOR CONFERENCES!  I hope to see you all the week of March 12 and tell you how fabulous your student is doing!

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