Dear parents,

It has been a productive week!  We finished our printing program, finished learning about our first artist Piet Mondrian, and finished our first unit in Math: Data Management.  WOW! Some of the key vocabulary the students learned in Data Management were: survey, tally marks, categories, conclusion, title, bar graph, pictograph, data, and key.  The students will be given a brief assessment next week on Data Management.  Please make sure to use IXL to practice and review the concepts we learned.  On Monday, we will learn our new math unit: Patterning.  We have also started our Spelling Program.  The students practice their words by doing different spelling activities and at the end of the week, they have a spelling test.  In Social Studies, we have been learning about the different rules and responsibilities we have in school and at home.  We will continue to look at this for the next few weeks.  As part of our Language Program, the students looked at action words in their poem and vowel pairs (ea, ee, ai, ay, oa, ie) in the morning message.  Ask your child why these vowel pairs are important.  You can also look at the video if they don't remember why.

VOWEL PAIRS VIDEO