Announcements
It is already time to start preparing for Parent-Teacher Conferences! You will find the blue form in the Friday folder. (Some will have a white form as well if your third grader is your only Paxton student.) Please send this form back as soon as possible so I may schedule your conference.
If you need another list of student names for Valentine's cards, please let me know and I will send one home. Students can make a bag/box, but this is optional. We also have extra Valentine cards at school for any students that need them. We will pass them out on Wednesday, February 14th!
Next week is School Counseling Week! We will celebrate by having some fun each day next week. Monday, students are encouraged to wear a hat.
In the Classroom
In reading this week, we started our new unit called Advancements in Technology. We read an article about Shirley Jackson, who invented call waiting and caller i.d. Students also explored how telephones have changed over time. We had lots of fun conversations about what talking on the phone used to be like! : ) We used these articles to practice drawing inferences, finding out the author's point of view, and cause/effect.
We started researching this week for our Opinion Technology writing piece. Students were asked to choose a technological invention they believe is important. So far, we have brainstormed topics and taken notes. We will work on organizing our notes and drafting next week.
We finished Unit 5 in math this week. This unit was heavy on multiplication. Now would be a great time to start practicing the facts. You can help by asking students to skip count by 5's, 4's, etc. There are also many apps or flashcards that would be helpful.
We finished our Force unit this week. Students continued exploring with magnets to find the strongest parts. We also learned about which poles attract and repel. Finally, we studied patterns of forces by looking at swings and trapezes.
Upcoming Events
Valentine's Room Party-February 14
No School-Teacher workday, February 16
No School-President's Day, February 19
Conference Week-February 26-29
No School-March 1
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