Greetings Families,
Thank you, thank you, thank you. I feel like a rock star after last week! I can’t wait to plant my rose bush and have already taken advantage of a few of the gift cards. I feel totally appreciated. Thank you all, but especially to our dedicated room parent, Mrs. Jacobson. You were the heart behind all this love!
Chloe Chang will be our star student for this week. Looking ahead, Zachary Sears will be our Star Student for the week of February 22.
Here’s what’s going on in your child’s school life:
Please check your child’s Homework Assignment Sheet every week. I’ve listed any overdue assignments under the notes section. If you see assignments listed under the yellow line, they are at least 2 weeks over due. Students will be asked to give up some of their recess/lunch time until all assignments are accounted for.
In Math; We continue to take Lightning Rods tests on Tuesdays and Thursdays. After each drill, progress reports are sent home for parent initials. Forms need to be returned the next day in order to be updated with the current test results.
Last Wednesday we began a three-lesson mini unit on area and perimeter. The assessment for this unit will be be given on Thursday, February 11. In Unit D, students continue to explore perimeter and area. In Unit A, students found the perimeters of triangles and quadrilaterals by measuring the sides and adding the lengths. In unit 4, students learned that the area of a rectangle is the number of square units that fit inside it, and then used the area to model multiplication. In this unit, students find perimeters and areas of figures drawn on a dot array, determine when a real-world problem involves perimeter and area, and develop algebraic formulas for perimeters and areas of rectangles and squares.
In Language Arts we are continuing to read from our core-literature book, Indians of the Oaks by Milicent Lee. After reading a chapter, various tasks will be assigned such as writing a chapter summary and writing poems. The book is about a 10 year old boy who comes to live with the Kumeyaay Indians and learns their way of living.
Word Study: We have begun a new unit in “e-drop and consonant-doubling” before adding a suffix. The test for this Unit will be given on Friday, February 26. During word study, we explore various spelling features of our current word list. Students are expected to study these words at home as needed. The Word Study page in the side bar has the current word study spelling list. There is also a page with suggestions for activities that might be helpful in studying the words.
In Social Studies: We will continue the unit on California Indians, Past and Present. In this unit students’ are learning about California Indian groups that lived in our region and in other regions in California. We will find out about the land where they lived , their beliefs, their systems of order, and what happened when they met other people who had come to California. This week we will cover lesson three of Unit 2.
Thank you for taking the time to read my blog. If you have suggestions on how I can make this blog better for you, PLEASE let me know. The purpose for this blog is to connect you to what’s going on in your child’s school life.
Make it a great week. AND: WHBK (work hard; be kind).

