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Our Weekly Learning        3-3-17
News and Information    Spring Break March 13-17----NO SCHOOL. Parent-Teacher conference information will be coming home soon.   Conferences are scheduled for March 28 and March 30th. Read-A-Thon is Friday, March 10th. Reading Log is due March 9th. We will be NWEA testing March 27-31.
Language Workshop This week we continued our unit on plants. We learned about the structure of a plant.  We also learned what plants give and need.	Math Workshop We finished topic 8-- “Tens and Ones” this week.  We started topic 9-- “Comparing and Ordering Numbers to 100”.
Writing Workshop This week we introduced informative writing.  We finished our “How to”.  Students will next week learn how to write an informative piece. We will use the information that we learned from American Symbols. We will be ready to write our own informative piece on animals.	Word Study I have sent home a list of words we have learned in 3rd quarter. Please practice reading and spelling these.  We will assess the students on being able to reading and spell these words correctly.
Next Week Next week we will begin our unit on animals and gathering interesting facts on them. In Math, we will finish up Topic 9, “Comparing and Ordering Numbers to 100”.	Important Dates March 13-17  Spring Break