We've had several viruses going around, so we have been taking extra time to disinfect our classroom and materials. We are also encouraging washing hands frequently. If your child is sick please make sure they are symptom and fever free for 24 hours before returning to school. This will help everyone stay healthy.
Reminders: This week we will celebrate The Hour of Code
Monday (2/20): President's Day Holiday
Tuesday (2/21): No Library
Tuesday folders will come home. Please return them on Wednesday.
Look for books about our 16th President, Abraham Lincoln. Please read and discuss this important President. Great ideas for thinking are at the end of the book. Look for math review pages to think about numbers in different ways.
Wednesday (2/22):
Thursday (2/23):
Friday (2/24): Engineering Day
A note about Engineering Day...
On Friday, February 24th Caraway will hold it’s 2nd annual Engineering Day!
We want to give the students a broad a view of engineering possibilities, so we have invited engineers from many different disciplines. We will learn about engineering, how people create solutions to everyday problems, how people merge art and technology to create wonderful new things and how people work with teams to change our world!
Engineering Day will run for the first half of the day February 24th and be organized into three 45-minute rotations.
Rotation 1: 8:15am-9:00am
Rotation 2: 9:00am-9:45am
Rotation 3: 9:45am-10:30am
This week in Reading Workshop...
We will begin our unit on Poetry. We will read many different types of poetry and think about why readers want to read poetry. We will learn about the forms of poetry and how the reader understands what the author is trying to say to their reader.
This week in Writer's Workshop...
We will also begin our unit on Poetry. We will think about how poets see things with fresh, new eyes. We will think about how poets form their writing with line breaks so their reader can experience their poem. We will also think about poems are big ideas in tiny packages. We will be creating a collection of poems during this unit.
This week in Math...
We will be reviewing money. We know the value of coins and can use our counting strategies according to the value of coins to find out how much money we have! If I have 5 nickels, I can think 5, 10, 15, 20, 25...I have 25 cents.
This week in Social Studies...
We will think about spending and saving money as well as earning money. We will earn "money" in the classroom and shop for supplies for an amazing art project on Friday!