I hope everyone had a great spring break.  This week we will be working hard on fluency in guided reading groups.  We are also almost done with our poem book and are excited to have some published authors.  We will be having some Chinese students in our classroom to do some activities with us as well.

Important dates:

Wednesday, April 18:  District Science Fair for the winners of our school science fair. 

Spelling for April 1-April 5: Jumped Loaded Rained Needed Snowed Walked Screamed Melted Bumped Turned Missed Started Passed Mailed Twisted Cleaned Handed Dressed Dusted Asked Words are on spellingcity.com Under List 17 if you want to practice there. Words will also be written in their planners.

UTIPS Homework: Test is Comp-Mixed 12 and Comprehension 9. for this week.  We are going to be doing two to begin preparing for end of year testing which may be coming up in April.  Mr. Chen says he has been putting up UTIPS to correspond with what they are currently learning in math.  He would like you to do his math tests.

Keyboarding Help: The school has used a free internet program called Dance Mat typing. bbc.co.uk/schools/typing

Reading Days: Remember to record your reading days!!! Your child needs to read 20 minutes or more to count as a day.