Week of 2/13/2017

Ahoy! This week is ART WEEK at Lacamas. We started Monday with a group of high school students teaching our whole school an art lesson. On Wednesday there was an amazing shadow puppet performance, and on Friday we will cap the entire thing off with the high schoolers helping us to finish our school wide art project! Between art week and Valentine's day it has been a very busy week so far!

Math: We are starting to wrap up unit 3! This week and the beginning of next week we will be looking at the last few ends of multi-digit addition and subtraction. I am impressed with how well the students are learning to use the strategies being taught to add and subtract. Story problems will be our focus for the next few days.

Reading: We are finishing up our unit on Alaska and the native Athabaskan people. The end of this week our students will be doing a performance based assessment where they are responding to a prompt about what we have been reading. I am looking forward to seeing the growth that our students are making.

Writing: The last day for our writing piece was on Tuesday. The rest of this week will be spend working on our performance based assessment. A new piece will begin next week!

Science: Today we discussed the four major components of weather: temperature, wind speed, cloud cover, and precipitation. We learned about why the North and South Poles are cold and learned that the South Pole is the coldest! Ask your student to explain to you why the South Pole is cold!

Spelling:
there
their
know
write
too
place
while
next
something
together
food
once
mother
light
country
father
let

Mystery Questions:
1) How many Valentine's Day cards are exchanged each year in the U.S.?
2) Which state produces 60 percent of American roses grown in the U.S.?
3) Which card company has 1330 different cards specifically for Valentine's Day?
4) What percentage of women American send themselves flowers on Valentine's Day?
5) What is the meaning of Valentine's Day?

Hope you are all having a great week!
Miss Irwin