Upcoming Dates:
2/14 Valentine’s Celebration, wear red or pink. Also bring in your mailbox for all of the Valentines!
2/21 No School for Students
2/22-2/25: Basket Fillers Service Project
3/4: Knowledge-a-thon
3/13: Daylight Savings Time Starts
3/14: No School for Students
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KAT
Our school-wide Knowledge-A-Thon is quickly approaching. This is one of NDLC’s biggest fundraisers. We sent home the KAT questions and fundraising envelope last week.
We will be practicing the KAT questions at school during our morning meetings. However, please take the time to practice them at home too!
The KAT will be held on March 4th. This day is meant to be fun, low stress for your student. We will celebrate as a whole school with Movie and Popcorn too.
Math:
This week we will take a test on our latest unit about subtraction.
Also, this week we are starting a new unit about telling time to the nearest 5 minutes and organizing data. This week we will focus on clocks, both analog and digital. We will look at how clocks are organized and have games that practice telling time. Any extra work you can do at home with clocks would be great! There are some great apps for practicing telling time but also talking to your kids about it and having them practice reading time at home is all great!
Leader In Me
This week we continue our work around Habit # 5: Seek First to Understand. We will be talking about honesty. Students will understand:
–why being honest can be difficult sometimes
–what lying reveals about our character
–the consequences of developing a habit of dishonesty
Reading
In reading we are having lots of fun learning methodical ways to solve words, long words with multiple syllables. We have talked about splitting longer words between two consonants in the middle of a word, between double consonants, what happens to the vowel sounds between, and more! If you are reading with your student, be sure to let them work through solving tricky words. Don’t tell them. You could stay, “what else can you try? Does that make sense? Does that look right?”
Writing
In writing students are off and writing realistic fiction. Last week we focused on picking ideas that give us strong feelings. We want ideas that are connected to what we know, what we have done before. Then we worked on planning an idea. Taking what we know and adding some twists to it to take the characters through a problem and a solution. You can support your student by talking about ideas they could write about. For example: if you were skiing as a family you might say, “this is a good thing to write about.” Then you could practice telling the story together. Storytelling is a strong link to students being more successful writing narratives.
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