One more week and break?!!?

It is hard to believe that we are only one week away from April Break!

It is going to be a great week in Team Jones.  I am out scoring on Monday but Amy Higgs will be there again (she was there Friday) and I am sure everything will run smoothly.

This week in Reading Workshop, we are going to spend time concentrating on Fluency.  My readers will be coming home with short pieces to read aloud three times.  Please, do it with them. Have them read to you, you read to them, read it together.  The goal is to make these readings flow nicely and smoothly.

We have started our unit on Literary Essay and we will be spending time on reading closely to see what the author is trying to say.  Reading is such a big part of writing...

In math, we will be reviewing multiplication, division, place value, and fractions (again).  We are in a fantastic place for the math test coming up in three weeks.  I will also do a  fun (yet educational) project with Jelly Beans.  We will count, graph, measure, and calculate many different aspects of one bag of Jelly Beans.

We had a very nice end of the week activity last week watching Frozen and discussing the lessons learned: be in control of your body, your action affect others, and be accepting of your and others differences.  To piggyback on this, we will be doing a team building activity where everyone in the class teaches something they are great at.  We all have differences and sometimes we just need to get to know each other to discover how amazing each of us are!  We will have 4 "teachers" each week until we finish the project.

I hope you get outside today, it is SUNNY!  Thank you again for all that you do for our class!