Students’ Highlights 2/12/24 – 2/16/24
Parent teacher conferences provided opportunity for us to discuss your child’s second trimester progress. This discussion helped us determine guidance for students, offering ample time to make improvements and strengthen their skill set from the previous report, and assisted in setting specific goals for the remaining trimester. Thank you for talking with us about your child’s amazing achievements!!
Your child is learning to use steps to help solve problems. Saying the problem without blame is the first Problem-Solving Step. With Problem-Solving Steps to follow, children are more likely to come up with prosocial solutions to problems. The first step is to be able to recognize blaming words. Then we can try to say the problem without blame.
After Rodeo break, Math lessons will use multiplication and division within 100 to solve word problems in situations involving equal groups, arrays, and measurement quantities, e.g. by using drawings and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem. Students will work on learning the facts to 10 X 10 by playing the array game, Factor Pairs, and by practicing with their multiplication cards. They will discuss how to use facts they know to help them with facts they do not know.
The social studies unit, Tucson History, started with our field trip to the Tucson Presidio. Students spent the rest of the second trimester learning about the reasons Tucson developed into the city it is today. Students will continue their learning by working in small groups. They will write about an important part of Tucson’s history. Then, the group will create a visual aid representing the event or person during class. Our studies will culminate with a Tucson History Day where students will share what they have learned with parents. Tucson History Day is scheduled for late March and will include costumes and an authentic school room experience in the morning. Activities include, but are not limited to chalk boards, readers, cursive writing, and a spelling bee. Students will present what they learned to parents at the end of the day.
The students are encouraged to dress in period clothing. The girls may wear long skirts with blouses, or long dresses. The boys may wear long pants or denim jeans and a buttoned-down shirt. Several clothing items are available to borrow from Ms. Stalkfleet. T-shirts are not permitted, as they would have been considered underwear during the period being recreated. Acceptable accessories for the girls are straw hats, bonnets, hair ribbons, and shawls. Acceptable accessories for the boys are straw hats, suspenders, and neckerchiefs. If possible, students should not wear athletic shoes. Leather shoes or boots would be more appropriate.
Spelling words for the week of 2/19:
- gift
- sold
- left
- raft
- held
- swift
- wild
- after
- drift
- world
Reminders
- February 16th Second Trimester Ends
- February 19th-23rd No School, Rodeo Break
- February 26th- Classes Resume
Have a wonderful Rodeo Break!