Updates

Reading Logs/Book-it Program
As a reminder, your child should be reading at least 20 minutes per night and recording his/her thoughts in their reading log. Once they've read you should verify that they've read and read over their comments, then initial in the appropriate spot. In the month of January we had 4 students out of the 16 in our class complete their reading log. These students were Nailah Jones, Raegan Williams, Jordyn Hill and Maranda Martin. All 4 of these ladies received a Pizza Hut book-it certificate to reward their efforts. Keep it up!

Field Trip
On Thursday we will have our in-school Lego Field Trip. If you have not already done so, please send it the $4 fee to cover the cost of the trip. Thank you in advance to Ms. Miller (Romantic's mom) for volunteering to help out.

Cell Phones

We've had a few students bring operable cell phones to class. Please be sure to have your child leave their phone at home, as we have a phone in our classroom that they have access to.

Writing
We just finished our unit on Many Moment Stories. A many moment story is a personal narrative story, in which students recall all of the details within an event that's happened in their life. The stories that students wrote were really good, many of them have done well with recalling details and getting them onto paper. One thing that we're all working on is using punctuation appropriately and using more than just periods in our writing.

Math
We are wrapping our 6th unit in math. This week students will be working on learning the beginning stages of multiplication, including arrays. Now would be a good time to purchase/make multiplication fact cards to practice facts at home.

Reading
This week I'll be working on retesting students; therefore, they will be pulling books from our class library to take home rather than getting Guided Reading books from me.

That's all for now.
Mrs. Gibson