Room 303 News 03/25/19

Weekly Updates and Reminders:

• Join us on Tuesday, March 26th from 2:30-3:30 for our Cultures of Thinking Celebration.  You are not required to stay the entire hour, but just come by and take a look at our our learning in our classroom and throughout our school!  
  
   
• The Wixom Book Fair is all next week.  The students will be able to preview the Book Fair as well as have some time to shop.
• The second trimester ended on Friday, March 15.  Report cards will be posted on Skyward on this Wednesday, March 27.
• Friday, March 29th is our last day of school before SPRING BREAK!  School will resume on Monday, April 8.
• MARCH IS READING MONTH!  Students are to read for AT LEAST 30 minutes each evening and write it on their log.  Please tally their minutes and send these logs to school every Monday for the month of March.  We have been fortunate to have a couple of very special guest readers in our classroom.  Mayor Ziegler of Wixom and State Representative Ryan Berman both read to our class last week.
  
  
  
  

MATH
 Hands-on exploration of shape attributes!  .
SOCIAL STUDIES
Thank you to all our volunteers for their time and energy :) attending our field trip to the Capitol and Michigan Historical Museum!  We had a terrific day of learning and fun!  



SCIENCE
Students took their Motion and Matter Assessment. Look for their grades to come home this week.  

 Word Study/Grammar:

This week for grammar we are on Week Twenty-five.  The students are learning all about R-controlled vowels (-ar and -or), abbreviations, and future tense.

Writing:   

We continue to work on Opinion Writing. The students have been working hard on developing STRONG reasons and examples to support their opinion.  We have also been working on using transition words to move from one idea to the next.  We are using the Opinion Writing Rubric to closely evaluate our own writing and the writing of our peers.
   

We also did a Circle of Viewpoints with the story I Wanna New Room. In this story we examined how the boy using PERSUASION to get what he wanted.

 

 

Reading:

We continue to learn about informational text. We have been learning about important skills that readers need to do BEFORE, DURING, and AFTER reading non-fiction texts.  We have also been learning about how to figure out tricky words in non-fiction.

Two students have finished their Reading Challenge!  We will be celebrating with a pizza and slurpee lunch!  Way to go Lucas and Marissa! :)