Week in Review: February 18-21

We had a great week in Lower Elementary! We were busy at work practicing for the Peace Ceremony and Parent's Night. We enjoyed reading our peace poems at the ceremony and presenting our favorite jobs during Parent's Night!

For language jobs this week,  First grade students completed a word study job of their choice and created sentences with verbs, articles, adjectives, and nouns. Second grade students completed a word study job of their choice and created sentences with prepositions.  Third grade students completed a word study job of their choice and continued working with sentence analysis.

For math jobs this week,  First grade students were introduced to multiplication and worked with adding fractions . Second grade students had further practice with subtracting large numbers and had continued work with adding and subtracting fractions. Third grade students had further practice with solving division problems with larger numbers and multiplying fractions.

In Science, students continued their study of light. This week, we completed four stations which explored reflection, refraction, the light spectrum, and classifying materials as transparent, translucent, or opaque.

In History, students continued their study famous African Americans in honor Black History month. Students began research on the famous African American of their choice. Students will research the childhood, education, and contributions of the person they chose.

Next week, students will be busy at work using expanded notation, working with syllables, and identifying/using/and creating graphs!

REMINDERS:

-All homework is typically sent home on Monday and is to be completed during the week. It is due on Friday. Students will be given Spelling tests and Math Timed tests in class every Friday. 

-The sign up sheet for conferences is now up outside Classroom 3! Please stop by and sign up for a conference time!

-Come see our school presentation of School House Rock!  7:00 on Friday, February 28th!