Thank you to everyone who donated items for our 100th day math equation trail mix. All students were challenged to create an equation to equal 100, given different restrictions. The result was a yummy snack of exactly 100 items for everyone. We greatly appreciated your help!!

Thank you so much to the many volunteers we’ve had during the month of January! Marco Cervantes, Chico Garcia, Sue Ellen Gonzalez, Sheila Peck, Robert van der Hoeven and Diana Whittenburg have all generously donated their time to help us out this month! Thank you!!!!

It was great to see everyone at conferences last week. I look forward to meeting with the rest of our families this Wednesday!

The Book Fair will be here through this Wednesday, February 6th.

Reminders:
Yearbooks can be ordered at a cost of $12.50 with the order form that was sent home, or by going online at YBPay.lifetouch.com, ID Code 10849713.

Keep using MyOn for nightly reading! This can be recorded on the home reading log.


What are we learning this week?

Reading: How Do Machines Work? is our next theme for Rigby. Our focus will be on Synthesizing Strategies and the genre is humorous fiction. Our new vocabulary words are essential, wheel, machine, reduce, labor, and effort.

Writing: Our writing focus is Authors as Mentors. We continue to look at the strategies various authors use in their own writing in order to inspire and improve our own pieces. This includes ensuring that every piece includes correct capitalization, punctuation and grade level spelling.

Math: We continue our work on double digit addition. We are using strategies to efficiently add two or more, double digit numbers. Our work will also include money and patterns.

Science: We are working on our study of magnets as we attempt to answer the question of whether it’s possible to determine if something is magnetic without using a magnet to test it.

Social Studies: Our new focus is now on the study of landforms such as mountains, plains, hills, valleys, etc.

Word Study/Spelling: Our spelling test next week will cover words with the hard and soft “G” sound. We will also take a new spelling pretest on Wednesday to determine our new word lists. The focus will be on words with the OI and OY patterns (coin, point, enjoy)

Weekly Peek...

Monday: Art
Tuesday: PE
Wednesday: LATE START, Music, Library, Computer, Spelling Test, Conferences
Thursday: Art
Friday: PE



Upcoming Events:
Late Start: February 6th
No School: Presidents’ Day - February 18th
Raptor Night: February 20th