Happy St. Patrick's Day

Let's hope that those pesky Leprechauns don't come around Room 6 this year or if they do, that one of my students catch them!

This week we will be enjoying the story The Forest which is a non fiction story about the forest. We will use this story to help us learn how to write an informational piece. Our strategy focus will be summarizing a story. Our phonics focus will be on base word with ed and ing endings. We will also be focusing on verbs.

In math, we will be working in Chapter 20 learning about money. We will be identifying and finding the value of pennies, nickels and dimes. We will be skip counting by fives and tens. Now is a great time to take out all those coins you have been collecting at home and let your child sort, identify and count them. Your child will learn that skip counting by fives is like counting nickels and skip counting by tens is like counting dimes.

In science, we will start our unit on weather so please take time at home together to read the weather report in the paper and or listen to the weather report on the news. We act as meteorologists daily here in the classroom already.

We had fun making pancakes this week and special thanks to Mrs. DeFrancesco and Mrs. Rigor who came in to help us.

Special thanks also to those who drove and chaperoned on our field trip to the jr high. We loved seeing the play.

Your child brought home a field trip permission slip to go to the Roller Palladium on Friday, March 30. We will be leaving about 10:00 and returning about 1:15. Please remember to return the permission slip along with the $10.00 in cash. Thank you for following the district policy that states that no siblings are allowed to attend field trips.

Remember, Monday is a holiday so enjoy the long weekend!