March 4-18

Hello Families! It was so nice to return to big smiling faces on Monday! The kids made my return so much easier with their hugs and smiles. I am glad to be back- it almost felt like I never left! I thank Mrs. Schessler for that!

This week we have been celebrating Dr. Seuss and finishing up some big units like Plants, Fractions, Nonfiction and Animal Reports (WOW did these turn out great!). We have also begun some new units like exploring the genre of Humor in writing, learning about making inferences in reading (using clues from the text and pictures to better understand the story/text). We have also begun...keyboarding. The kids seem to be excited about learning how to type. It is a hard skill that takes patience, a positive attitude and focus to learn. Please encourage your child to place their hands in the "online" position (fingers on home row keys) when they type at home. It is especially hard for kids this age to use the correct fingers as kids are use to "pecking" with two fingers. We also started learning about communities this week when our Junior Achievement representative, Kelly, came into our room to discuss what makes a community. The Junior Achievement program will teach the kids an interactive lesson about community every Friday for 6 weeks. It is a fabulous program that the kids seem to love.

Class News:

*Knuffle Bunny field trip permission slip is due on Friday March 11.

*Send a couple photos to school to be used to write captions in our Humor study

*Conferences are approaching- please turn in your green confirmation sheet if your child has been scheduled a conference