This has been a busy week! This is the first week EVERYONE is able to go to their instrument or music lessons. Don't forget to check when those instruments are needed! In Social Studies we have been working with longitude and latitude. This week we used Google Earth to help us understand! The students entered specific latitude and longitude coordinates to realize that those numbers take them to an exact location. We got to see the Statue of Liberty, Disney, Pyramids in Egypt and much more! In reading we talked about character traits. Inside traits and outside traits. We used The Wild Robot as a common book we could all talk about. Then we made ourselves as robots and brainstormed character traits about us! We have also been working on being independent learners during our I/E block. There is nothing new taught during this time, so students have time to work on what is right for them during this time. In math we have continued to work on place value. This week we focused on rounding. Mr. Grenham came in this week and read a great story and had a great discussion with us! I really enjoyed meeting everyone at PIN. Remember if you have any questions please feel free to reach out. I forgot to mention one thing about homework. I will never send home something new we are learning for homework. I always try to make sure it is something we have been working on for awhile so that the students are mostly independent. If homework, especially math is ever a struggle please write a note or an email and let me know. It isn't worth spending hours frustrated. Don't forget to sign up for the Remind App you can choose to receive them as a text or an email. There are several times when I will send little reminders there and not send a whole email. A note about fidget spinners: These have become very distracting. If you child has trouble focusing or paying attention and has a fidget tool the expectation is that it is used as tool. Sometimes students have these and they don't really need them and it becomes a distracting toy. Please have a discussion with your child if they are bringing them to school so that they understand the difference. I did talk with them today about this and I hope they make good choices.
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February 2018
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