Note from Mrs. Harrison

Dear Parents,

It is hard to believe that Friday marks the end of our first semester of school. A quick reminder that the students will be dismissed at 11:55 this Thursday and Friday. Thursday afternoon teachers will be meeting for Professional Development and Friday afternoon teachers will be working on report cards.

The Little Caesars’ fundraiser orders are due today. Some of the money raised will go towards covering some of the cost of your child’s field trip to Lansing in 4th grade.

This past Wednesday, Wendy, a naturalist from Fernwood Nature Center, stopped by our class to show the students her rock and mineral collection. Students were all very excited to see all the rocks. After Wendy explained that metamorphic rocks are made from heat and pressure, she

gave all the students two different colored Starbursts and explained how they can apply heat and pressure to make their own “pretend” metamorphic rock. This week the students will learn more about rocks as we start a new science unit, Earth Materials.

Enrichment Rocks!

HARRISON’S HEROES ALWAYS FREE JANUARY 22, 2018

STEWART ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

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Students enjoyed looking at all the rock samples naturalist Wendy brought with her for last week’s enrichment. They especially loved making metamorphic rocks out of starbursts.

Students enjoyed munching on popcorn while reading on Friday during our PTO sponsored DEAR time.

Math: Unit 4 Measurement

Unit 4 Module 2 Session1 Measuring liquid volume Session 2 measurement hunt Session 3 & 4 Problems Session 5 Multi-Step ProblemsStudy Island has some great lessons and practice tests online to give kids extra practice.Homework Due Wed pages 67-68 Friday pages 69-70

Spelling Words: No Spelling this week

Specials:Monday-PETuesday-ARTWednesday-Guidance/LibraryThursday-Music Friday-PE

Upcoming Events January 25 and 26-1/2 day of school

February 2-Report Cards are sent home

February 8- Parent/Teacher Conferences 1/2 day of school

February 19-Presidents Day-no school

February 23- Variety Show

February 28-Wax Museum

Note from Mrs. Harrison Continued: Report cards will be sent home next Friday. I will be happy to answer any questions or concerns you have over your child’s report card during our scheduled conference time or over the phone or email. If you would like a face to face conference please schedule a time that works for you by visiting www.ptcfast.com Our class code is: D951128732 Students all appear to enjoy researching the person they will be portraying for our Wax Museum which will be held on Wed., Feb. 28th. This week students will be finishing their outlines. Next week they will begin the first draft of their biographies. To view some biographies from years past please visit: http://harrisonsheroes.weebly.com/biographies.html Students have until this Friday to earn AR points to use at the AR Store on Feb. 1st.

Language ArtsWe will continue to work on:

Strategies: Compare/ContrastGrammar: Verbs: be, have, do and their uses in different tensesWriting Trait: Wax Museum Reports

Sneak Peek at the Week Ahead