Friday, Feb.3rd

Mrs.Alvarado’s Class News Friday, Feb.3rd We have had a great week! The class has been having fun learning about the solar system! Don’t forget that the solar system projects are due next Friday, Feb.10th. The class has shared their ideas for the projects and they sound great! We will be displaying the solar system projects in the media center. I will meet the class in the media center to help arrange the projects next Friday morning. We have a field trip next Thursday to the Youth Museum. The Youth Museum teaches about the Revolutionary War by putting the kids in a play. Everyone will get a part. It is a great way to preview the Revolutionary War before we learn about it in class. I would like everyone to wear their red class t-shirts and jeans for the trip. We will be eating an early lunch before we go on the trip. They can eat a snack when we get back to school. Should be a really fun day for them! Take a look at what we are doing in subject areas: Reading- We finished the Egypt Game book and all of the activities this week. Next week we will be reading Beezus and Ramona by Beverly Cleary. Our focus lessons will be on comprehension, sequencing, summarizing, and vocabulary. Grammar- We will be starting a unit on adverbs. Writer’s Workshop- We have been working in the trait “Word Choice”. We worked on replacing boring verbs with vivid verbs to make our writing more exciting. We also used our 5 senses to describe in more detail. Next week we will be writing with more vivid verbs, sensory words and adjectives/adverbs to make writing more detailed. Math- We have been working with fractions for the past two weeks. Some of the lessons have been challenging at first but they all seem to have a much better understanding now! Thanks for your help with homework! You really help me when you review at night with homework! You really insure your child’s success! We will be finishing up fractions with a test on Wednesday, Feb.8th over Chapters 14 and 15. Science- We will be finishing up our unit on the solar system with a test on Friday, Feb.10th. I will send home a study guide! Have a great super bowl weekend! May your favorite team win! Mrs.Alvarado