It has been a chocolate extravaganza! Students are LOVING reading The Chocolate Touch at home and school. Here at school, we have decorated our door with coins with each student's initials just like the coin John found on the street. We also watched a video on how chocolate is made, compared The Chocolate Touch to The Golden Touch. Hershey Kisses were also enjoyed! The chocolate fun will continue next week! Also, next week is Read Across America week- a celebration of Dr. Seuss. Every day we will be reading in different places with classmates, friends and the school!
We have completed Unit 4 of Wonders. Our genre for the week was poetry with poems about nature including rain and wind. Students worked on creating acrostic poems to describe nature and themselves! With poetry, students practice repetition and alliteration. Next week, will be a review week with practicing and applying all skills taught during Unit 4.
Topic 8- Time & Money is complete! I am glad we took our time with this topic and students had the opportunity to become secure with these life skills. We will continue to review these skills the remainder of the year. Topic 9 is Numbers to 1,000. We jumped right in this week and started with the first lesson. Also, we are working on a Benchmark Assessment that shows what students have learned from all Topics 1-8.
Important Information:
Conferences are less than 2 weeks away! Here is the sign-up.
We will be going to the Avon Lake library on Wednesday March 8th from 1 to 2:15. If you are available to attend, please let me know. Also, we will be going to Cleveland's Museum of Natural History on April 26th. More information will follow.
Marco's Pizza Night is Tuesday, February 28th. Order online. Don't forget to click on Redwood Elementary under "Fundraisers". Redwood earns money back on each ONLINE order and we have the possibility to win the school challenge and a grant of $10,000!
Wear Your Sunglasses to School- Bring $1 and wear your glasses for the day on Tuesday, February 28th!
Thanks,
Marissa Wilhelm
