Important Dates and Information in February:
Ice Skating: Our annual ice-skating field trip will be on Tuesday, February 3rd. We will leave Lincoln at 2:20. We should be at the rink by 2:35 and ice skate from 2:45-3:15. If you are available to help tie ice skates, that would be helpful! Mrs. Crawford's kindergarten class will be joining us!
Spring Conferences: Spring conferences are held as needed. I have emailed the parents to let them know if we need a conference. If you didn't receive an email and would like to schedule a conference, please email me, and we can find a time that works for you. Conferences will be on the half days Thursday & Friday, February 12th & 13th. All students are working on their student-led conference slides and goals and will present them. Students with no conference scheduled will present them at home to earn extra yards!
Kindness Party: On Friday, February 13th, we will have our Kindness Party! It is a half-day. The time is TBA. We will not require parent volunteers to come to the classroom. We will have light snacks, and if students want to participate in trading "Valentine" cards, the list of students is below. If you would like to send in a sweet or salty treat, that would be great! Here is the Class List. Thanks!
Important Dates
Late Starts: 1/21, 1/28
No School: 1/19 Professional Development for Teachers
Science & Culture Night: 1/29
Annual Ice Skating at Howard: Tuesday, February 3rd
Visit to Upton Planetarium: 2/9 from 9:45-10:30
Half-Days: 2/12 & 2/13
Conferences (As-needed basis): 2/12 & 2/13
Kindness Party: 2/13
No School Teacher PD Day: 2/16
End of the Trimester: 2/27
In the Classroom:
Please ask your child what they are learning in our classroom!
Reading: Module 2: Animal Mechanisms - Overview: Each module culminates in an activity where students synthesize their content and literacy knowledge across all three units in an authentic, often collaborative task that leads to high-quality work. Module 2-Innovator Performance Task: Publish and Present Your Animal Defense Narrative
This performance task provides students with an opportunity to integrate their research on animal defense mechanisms with narrative writing and to publish their work to an audience. In this task, students use their research about a specific animal from Unit 2 and their narrative from Unit 3 as the basis for a published piece. The published piece features a cover page with the narrative title, an image of the animal accompanied by labels and a caption, a fact sheet, the narrative itself, and a list of sources. Students write their narrative during Unit 3 and revise their narrative for the end-of-unit assessment. After this assessment, students compile and publish work from the module. After students publish, they share their work by presenting their narrative. This task addresses CCSS ELA W.4.6, SL.4.4, and SL.4.5.
Performance Task Module 2 Animal Mechanisms
Math: Unit 5 Home Connection:
- Students interpret, represent, and solve multiplicative comparison problems by understanding the relationship between multiplication and division. They use this reasoning to convert units within a given system from larger to smaller units.
Science: Waves of Sound
Social Studies: Democratic Values.
Be sure to add the party dates to your calendar!
Winter Party--December 19
Kindness Party--February 13
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Weekly Specials Schedule
Lunch: 11:30-11:55 Lunch Recess: 11:55-12:20
A.M. Recess: 10:00-10:15 every day
P.M. Recess: 2:45-3:00 every day
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