Newsletter March 20 - March 24

Happy first day of Spring, though I've heard that snow is in the forecast for this week.  We discussed the signs of spring today through two read alouds and will do a writing/art activity this week highlighting the things we learned about that.

Here are this week's happenings:

• Spelling test is tomorrow, March 21.  The words are on the sidebar of this blog if you have lost your list.
• Take-home books were not sent home today.  The take-home librarian was out of town.  They will resume tomorrow.  Please hunt for lost take-home books and keep up with that reading for ten minutes every night.  It only benefits your child.  We still have 40 days left of school a whole quarter and so much growth can happen in that amount of time.  I know  with spring it sometimes feels like we are done, but push through and continue to help your child nightly with reading.
• The March Scholastic book order is due this Wednesday, March 22.  
• We are half-way through our graphing unit in math. We have learned about and created both picture graphs and bar graphs.  We will move to tally charts next.  
• Today we learned about the earth's rotation and revolution around the sun.  We learned that it takes 24 hours for one rotation and one year for the earth to orbit around the earth.  My students loved learning about why it's light on one side of the earth and dark on the other side and why that occurs.  We also learned about the "horizon" and about the sun rising in the east and setting in the west. This is a very interesting subject for my students and I'm amazed at what they soak in and the questions they ask that I sometimes have to look up the answer :)  

Not as much today--but as always Happy Reading!