Posted by kavery508 | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on February 8, 2016
What a busy week ahead: 100 Day, Valentine’s Day, School Meeting, vacation looming, Chinese New Year, math test…and let’s just throw in some snow days to keep it lively! In an effort to help students keep calm and carry on, there are some changes to this week’s routine:
1. Math fact and spelling quizzes missed on Friday will be given this Friday instead. No new facts or lists need to be studied.
2. There are only 2 math homeworks assigned this week. This allows time for students to create 100 Day displays and make valentines. You can choose when to do the homeworks (any two nights or even both in one night) and I’ll correct any that are done each morning as usual.
I hope this flexibility helps keep things manageable at home.
It’s almost here! This Friday marks the 100th Day of School. Students are encouraged to make and bring in projects that show math and/or patterning involving the magic number 100. They can bring them any day and we’ll add them to our 100 Museum. Projects will be showcased and used on 100 Day as students analyze each other’s good work. For ideas: scroll down to last week’s blog post; check out Pinterest or Google; and click here for a look at last year’s kids showing their smarts!
Valentines will be exchanged on Friday. For a reminder of guidelines, please scroll down to last week’s blog post.
Thank you for keeping us well-stocked in health supplies this year! At this time, we need (lots) of band-aids. Please send in a box of plain, regular-sized bandages when you can (no antibiotics). Thanks for the help!
This Friday students across Floral will come together at All School Meeting to share and celebrate our learning. Using the book What Does it Mean to be Kind (DiOrio, 2015) as a focal point, students engaged in thinking, singing, writing, drawing, and most importantly, modeling kindness in their community. This is one of several lessons meant to help students understand and live our district’s core value of demonstrating respect by acting with “honesty, integrity, compassion, and kindness.” Check out this great video about random acts of kindness. Encourage your child to find the ways the characters “pay it forward!” (Source: A Better World via Youtube.com; Photo source: Amazon.com)
Happy Chinese New Year! We will learn a little about Chinese New Year customs long ago and today (history); our place and that of China in the world (mapping); and the ways in which people celebrate this holiday similar to those in Europe and North America (culture). My home town of Boston puts on a great display in and around Chinatown, including parades, food, and family-friendly events. Alternatively, there are lots of fun and interesting events happening all over the state for kids and families: http://www.boston-discovery-guide.com/boston-event-calendar-february.html (Photo source: Yoganonymous)
This week’s learning in brief: Kids will be re-introduced to Informative Writing as a vehicle for teaching others what is known about a topic using a main idea and supporting facts with details; In preparation for analyzing data taken from their own weather observations, students will be introduced to tables and will create them to track temperature from the past month; and our measurement work wraps up with a look at how to find the difference between 2 lengths or distances by adding, subtracting, and modeling, followed by the test on Chapter 7. Whew.
Our blog will take off next week for vacation. I hope you have a terrific week, and thank you for the many ways you show your commitment to your child’s education!
Reference: DiOrio, R. (2015). What Does it Mean to be Kind? San Francisco, CA: Little Pickle Press.
