Update, 2/7

Briefly- 

-Mr. Phillip’s “Toy Day” as a reward for achievements in mileage club is Tuesday. Feel free to send an active, school appropriate toy. See previous email for more information.

-Valentine’s fun on Friday for the kids. Please help them make their Valentine’s cards for all students if interested in participating. We will not be having any treats in class but will be making some neat things and playing some games. 

-Service projects “Nick’s Picks” and “Sports Equipment Exchange” are in effect. Volunteers are needed for The Exchange. See note from Mireille Barnard here:

"Hi Heights Families,

We are organizing a Gently Used Sports Equipment Exchange (Click HERE for more details) and we will be needing a lot of volunteers. Please consider giving an hour of your time for this great event. The link to the sign-up sheet is below. If you would also forward this email to a couple of Heights families that you think might like to know about the event and/or could volunteer, we would really appreciate it.

Thanks so much!

Mireille & Heights Cares Team

p.s. if you have any trouble accessing the sign-up sheet, please let me know. 

-Mireille

http://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e0f44acad2ea7fb6-used”

-Please be sure to sign up for parent conferences via our website.

-save the date: March 4th at 130 we will present “Heroes All!”- the students are sounding fantastic!

-Remember we have RazKids, Rosetta Stone, Dreambox, and Typing Club available for productive learning extensions at home. 

-Finally, be very proud of your young writers and social-scientists. They completed a multi-paragraph essay about their experiences with economics this last week. Stamina, structure, understanding of concepts, and willingness to take on challenges made ALL of the kids quite successful. We will continue our writing work with an essay that emerges out of this week’s biography studies. 

This Week’s Highlights

2/8-12

Phonics and word study focus

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Reading focus

Comprehension focus: Non-Fiction Texts: biography

Close reading: My Brother, Martin

Book club individualized strategy lessons: Lessons created for specific skill outcomes based on individual and group needs

Focus books: Ruby Bridges, My Brother Martin

Writing focus

Conventions- Spacing, Feeling ending of sentences, Periods and Capitals, Commas in a series

Writing skill- transitions and topic sentences in expository writing

Topical writing- multiple paragraph essay, character traits of biographical figures

Math focus

Full Math workshop

Math journal problem solving through visual models

Individualized challenges

Word Problem solving, larger numbers in addition and subtraction

Social Studies focus

Biographies

Science focus

Mrs. Minarik’s Science Lab

Homework

Daily reading, homework packet, and optional online work (razkids, rosetta stone, dreambox, typing club)