March 9th Newsletter

Dear Parents and Guardians,

This week we will be reading Narwhal and Jelly books by Ben Clanton, which I'm sure you will be hearing all about later this week!  We are learning about how important the illustrations in a book can be, and will focus on giving our readers detailed illustrations with our current writing projects.

We will continue working on our fairy tales in writing and we will be working on word choice and showing (not telling) how characters in our stories are feeling.  We also finished our class fairy tale in community writing!  We are finishing up the illustrations during art center this week.  Make sure you ask your child all about it!

This week in math, we will...

• Solve addition story problems within 20, with unknowns in different positions of equations.
• Solve subtraction story problems within 20, with unknowns in different positions of equations. 
• Compare heights of different kinds of penguins. We will work on writing inequality statements, order heights and figure out the difference between our heights and the penguin's height. 
• Recognize, describe, and extend number patterns and count by 2's beyond 20.

We will continue working on our social studies unit Our Country this week.  The kids have been very interested in the geography of the United States and this week we will continue to focus on the geography as well as learn about some of the symbols that represent the USA.

Special Points of Interest

• March 9- PTO Meeting (7:00 pm)
• March 11- Schauer Arts Center field trip fee due in Skyward
• Scholastic Book Orders are due this Friday, March 13th. Shop Online: scholastic.com/readingclub Class Activation Code: JBVLX
• March 17- St. Patrick's Day- Trinity Dancers Assembly
• March 19- End of 3rd Quarter
• March 20- March 27- Spring Break
• March 30- School Resumes
• April 2- Field Trip to Schauer Arts Center