Spring pictureswill be taken this Wednesday! Students received the information and envelope last week. All students will have their picture taken, but only those who prepay will get a package.

Students are forgetting theirsnack daysagain. February calendar is on the back of this newsletter. Please mark your student’s date. If sending a snack is a problem, please let me know.

Math–Students will explore a variety of 2 dimensional shapes and identify their attributes; be able to explain how quadrilaterals are different; be able to combine and separate shapes to make new shapes.

Language Arts– Our spelling pattern for the week is words with endings /ed/ and /ing/. Students will understand and use Target Vocabulary, identify story elements and use a graphic organizer to show story structure; identify the parts of a fictional paragraph and draft a fictional story paragraph.

Science-Students will monitor the weather this month and keep data about temperature. Students will distinguish between different wind scales and explore how an anemometer measures wind speed.

Social Studies– Students will compare goods and services; trace the development of a good from natural resource to finished product; learn about how people spend and save their money.