News From Room 207

Week of 1/28/13
We had a wonderful time on Thursday afternoon creating Valentines cards for our troops with our Kindergarten buddies. Please check out the slideshow on our classroom blog or at http://tinyurl.com/buddies2013. Your children did a great job persevering through many assessments last week. They should be very proud of their efforts. We will have one more assessment this week with the Mid-Year Math assessment on Tuesday and Wednesday. Golden envelopes will be coming home later this week. We will spend the beginning of our week, reviewing our Mock ELA MCAS, Unit 6 Math Test and our Simple Machines test prior to sending it home. Please spend some time going over the assessments with your child. The assessments provide us with valuable information to guide our upcoming instruction. U pcom ing Invention C onvention D ue D ates 2/1 2/28 Friday T hursday W hats M y Intent Sheet due Inventions and Posters due

Important Dates
1/29 Math Club T uesday 8:00AM

1/29-30 Mid-year Math Assessment 2/1 Friday Whats my Intent Sheet due 2/18 Monday Presidents Day/No School 2/19 - 2/22 Winter Vacation 2/28 T hursday Inventions and Posters due Invention Convention

Thank you so much to everyone for the donations of supplies for our Valentines cards, Thingamajig and Egg Drop projects. We are still in need of gently used or new panty hose/tights. Please let me know if you are able to help us out. I am looking forward to a wonderful week.

3/5 Professional Development Day/Early Release 4/9 Professional Development

Warmly,

Sandra Travers

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Specials Monday-Art Tuesday-PE Wednesday-Health Thursday-Music Friday-Chorus Media Dates: Every Other Tuesday
1/22, 2/5, 2/26, 3/12, 3/26, 4/23, 5/7, 5/21

Quote of the Week

1/14 Theodora 1/21 Thomas 1/29 Samantha 1/31 Alice

Snack/Recess daily at ~10:45am Lunch 12:05-12:40pm

Read Aloud Comfort Snowberger is finding it very difficult to deal with her cousin Peach but she does want to serve others as her mother has asks her to do. Will she be able to help Peach make it through the day of their Aunts funeral? Science We will complete our Thingamajig project this week. We are in need of gently used or new panty hose/tights. Please let me know if you are able to help us out with these supplies. Please be sure to ask your children what a "Thingamajig" is.

M ath We will complete our Mid-year Math Assessment and begin Unit 7 this week. Be sure to check out the Unit 7 sites found on our classroom blog. Additionally, have your children practice their math facts as time allows. Social Studies Our States and Capitals quiz will be on 2/8/13. This week we will look at the differences between the Upper and Lower South states.

English Language Arts The final draft of our Traditions piece is due on Friday. Students may write or type up their final draft. Additionally, we will focus on writing a persuasive piece based on a narrative piece we read called Strongest of All.