March 29th-April 2nd

Hello Families of Room 2!
Listed below are the important reminders and objectives for our week.  Please let me know if you have any questions.  Thanks!

Important Reminders:

• The box top classroom contest has begun!  Please send in any box tops you have with your child until April 2nd!  We are really hoping to win that pizza party!
• Please have your child turn in their monthly reading log Wednesday!
• Monday will begin another week of Aleks homework, all students need to complete is 15 minutes a week!

Weekly Objectives:

Writing:  This week we will continue Adapting and Writing Fairy Tales. We will focus on creating our own original fairy tales and we will publish them this week!

Reading: During reading this week, we are going to begin close reading. Close reading is a reading comprehension strategy in which you analyze a text over multiple days in order to gain a deeper understand of the text. 

Social Studies/Science/Word Study:  Our social studies test on Economics will be this Tuesday.  After Tuesday, we will not have social studies, science, or word study until after the MAP test in order to have extra time to prepare for the test! We will work on reviewing math concepts during this time.  We will begin a new science chapter when MAP testing is over.

Math:  This week in math, we will continue Chapter 12 and have our test on Wednesday.  We will also begin Chapter 14: Geometry.

Have a great week!