Classroom Ph: 786-1800: ext. 3227, e-mail: devinev@westottawa.
net
Dates to Remember
March 1-29 Reading Month
March 15 ½ Day, PT Confernces
March 20 Conferences, 5-8
March 23 End of 3rd Quarter
March 30 No School – Springbreak
What’s New:
On the website:
*This week’s newsletter
*Fun in the Gym Photos
*S.N.O.W. Day Photos
*Winter Olympic Photos
*Valentine’s Day Photos
Special Notes:
*Thank you to Mrs. Niziolek,
Mrs. Vosburg, Mrs. Warren (my
daughter), Mr. Vosburg (Grandpa),
and Mrs. Taylor for being our
Guest Readers this week! We still
have some spots if you can come
read to us this month!
We have read 123 books
So far on our way to our
goal of 500!! Keep filling
out those circles!
Webpage: msdevinesclass.com March 9, 2018
Reading/Language Arts
Our learning targets for reading this week have included:
*learning about contractions with not, n’d
* learning about endings that compare (er, est)
*blending words.
*rhyming words
*understanding syllables
*understanding background knowledge; learning to
Draw conclusions when we read.
*learning new vocabulary.
*being able to use contractions with not and to spell contractions with
not.
Our Writing learning target has focused on writing an an expository
piece! We have combined our writing and science objectives and have
written about the seasons and how you can tell what season it is by looking
outside at the weather, animals, trees/plants, and at people! We worked
together to complete a huge chart that talks about all of these things! We
have learned about main ideas and details. We have learned about writing
a beginning sentence that is not a detail. We were able to complete 2, yes 2
paragraphs with ending sentences! This writing is helping prepare us for
our animal writing coming up after spring break! Woohoo!
Science
We have continue to track
our weather on weather
Math
graphs. We have seen rain, snow,
This week in math our learning
and sleet! We have seen the
temperature drop from last week targets have focused on:
and put our jackets back on! We *organizing and sorting data
have observed cloud cover and *representing data with 5-groups
*representing data with pictures
learned about rain gauges. In
*representing data with circles
checking our rain gauges we found
water, not frozen, leaves, and dirt in *interpreting data
them. We know the dirt and leaves *organizing, representing, and
came from the breezy days we have interpreting data with both 2 and 3
had. categories
We are learning a lot about our *talking about data and asking
learning targets! We are learning questions about our data!
about tools used to track weather, *collecting our own data, then
about cloud cover, and about how to organizing, representing, and
describe the weather and seasons! interpreting it!
We are learning to chart data for We had a quiz this week and
weather just like we are learning practiced on whiteboards, with
about charting math data! stair steps, and in our math
journals! It is not as easy as it
looks!