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News From Kindergarten – Miss Cindy

I hope you all had a nice three day week‐end. I would like to thank thewonderful parent helpers who came on our ﬁeld trip to the Children’s Museumand helped at the Valentine’s Day celebration. The children loved both events.This week the sound “th” will be the sound focus. We will brainstorm “th”words and create lists onto a thumb! Kindergartners learned about theAmerican ﬂag, as well as information about George Washington. The famousAfrican Americans Matthew Hensen, George Washington Carver and BessieColeman are part of our Black History Month celebration; be sure to ask your child about these extraordinary people. The Book, Bunny Day is the literaryfocus and many work time centers are based on this book. On Friday, we willmeet with our third grade buddies to make bookmarks of their favorite authorsand illustrators. These will be displayed in the glass display case in the upper hall during the month of March. I will be reading the book,

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, today and everyone will make a great project based on thebook.I do not have any parent volunteer on Wednesdays; if you would like to come inand help out during writing and work time, please let me know. Thanks.

News from Kindergarten ‐ Teacher Dana

I hope everyone enjoyed the three day holiday weekend!Our trip to The Children’s Museum was a lot of fun. Thank you to the parentvolunteers who joined us.In kindergarten this week, we will begin focusing on a new artist, GeorgiaO’Keefe. In math we will learn a new game, Racing Bears, and continue our work comparing cube towers. We will also continue learning about GeorgeWashington, which we started last week in honor of his birthday.In worktime, we are focusing on the story Bunny Day. The students will beworking on graphing, putting words together in a sentence, and using oilpastels to recreate an illustration from the book. In worktime students willalso begin to think about time, and how it relates to their daily schedule.I am so glad to be learning right along with all of your students. I can’t believeI will be leaving in early March. Thanks for all of your support. ‐Norah

News from Kindergarten ‐ Miss Sarah

I hope you had a lovely holiday weekend. It is hard to believe it is alreadyWednesday! We had such a fun time last Friday visiting the Children’s Museumand then enjoying a Valentine’s celebration. Thanks to all of you whovolunteered and donated goodies. Boy, do we have a great classroomcommunity! This week we are learning about both President Washington andLincoln. We are beginning our new math unit which focuses on counting usingourselves subjects. At home, try counting with your child, starting with arandom number lower than 30 and counting to at least to 30. This is animportant kindergarten skill. We are beginning our study of the story BunniesDay in worktime. “Are” and “They” are two Word Wall words that are tricky for our students. Any support you can oﬀer with using those word in writing/reading will help them a lot. I hope to see you all on Friday at our CommunityDinner. We will prepare a meal together and then enjoy eating it! It sounds likefun. If you know you will be coming, let me know, so I can inform thecoordinator, Julia Hamlin!

Classroom Notes from First Grade ‐ Mrs. Pechette

Our auction project is completed and will be in the classroom this week for youto tempt yourself. The umbrella has been filled with beautiful, brightsunflowers. We’ve heard the question, “Is it a real umbrella?” Yes, it’s very realand ready for a rainy day. This umbrella can only be purchased at the auctionMarch 5th, so make your plans to attend. Last Friday we celebrated Valentine’sDay in a most special way. A lengthy part of our afternoon was spent readingand sharing Valentines. For many first graders this is the first time they canread all the clever rhymes by themselves. The children shared their happinessthanking each other. We ended our day with milk and a cookie, which seemedjust right. Thank you to the parents who helped with party items. Please stopin to view our friendship pictures taken Valentine’s afternoon. We also havephotos up in the hall of our Author’s Party. Thank you to all of you who joinedus for this special afternoon of reading and sharing. We hope you enjoyedspending time with your child as well as other children in the class. They lovedgetting to know you!

Classroom Notes from First Grade ‐ Mrs. Logue

Thank you all for helping to make our Valentine’s Friendship Celebrationinviting and yummy! Your children shared treats and read and reread their cardstogether. It was a really “heartful” day and one that helped encourageempathy and positive interactions between the students. We are continuing tonurture our growing ﬂower bulbs and record the changes they are makingwhile practicing measurement and patience! Last week we began our Rock,Sand and Soil science unit that will culminate in a excellent trip to the Rice RockMuseum in March. Please keep a look out for a missing peach colored crystalbelonging to Lucas and sorely missed! We are ﬁnishing assessments this weekfor coming report cards and I am pleased with each child’s individual growthand academic gains! They have all worked hard and it shows:) Please be sure totake a look at our art display in the glass case and have a wonderful week.abuckley@pps.k12.or.us

Classroom Notes from Second Grade ‐ Ms. Leake

This week we are moving onto clouds. We read the biography of the manwho named clouds. We also sketched the clouds and found words to describethem.In Math, we are focusing on problem solving strategies. Students are usingstrategies learned earlier to move beyond ‘counting on’ to solve problems inthe double digits.

Classroom Notes from Ms. Swan ‐ Second Grade

Aiden’s dad, Art Burden, is an atmospheric scientist who has worked with theScripp’s Institute of Oceanography for over eleven years. He created anincredible powerpoint presentation for our weather unit. We saw pictures ofthe Milky Way galaxy, a cool cloud movie, learned how thunderstorms arecreated, how hail is formed, discussed the three phases of water and so muchmore. Our thanks to Art for his hard work.We had a terriﬁc presentation from a guest speaker from Metro today. Shediscussed natural resources and recycling.Our Valentine exchange was wonderful. I wish you all could have seen thelooks on the children’s faces when they sat in the Valentine chair and everyonein class ﬁlled their heart folders with cards and good wishes. Thank you again toall the families for your generous donations. The class was thrilled with all their treats. Our thanks to Julie Lynch for being our party helper.Please be sure to stop by the hallway outside our room to see all thechildren’s weather challenge projects. They’ve done a very good job.Theprojects are attracting a lot of positive attention from Lewis students andparents.

News From Ms. Davis and Ms. V ‐ 3rd Grade Rm. 16

Last Friday’s Valentine’s Day party was lots of fun. Children ate their cookiesin suspense trying to figure out who their Pixie Pals were. Thanks to all thefamilies who donated cookies and drinks for our party. This week in readingchildren will finish their Venn Diagrams comparing two fairy tales written bydifferent authors. We will also work on getting ready for next week’s statereading test. We will begin by having a class discussion about what the childrenalready know about testing and then answer any questions they have. Then, wewill spend some time looking at a few sample questions to prepare children for the format of the state test. We do not put pressure on children about testingbut encourage them to do their best. As parents, you can help by making sureyour child has had a good night of sleep and a healthy breakfast. Our class willcomplete the reading test next Monday and Tuesday, February 23rd and 34th.We are looking forward to Friday’s fieldtrip to the Pittock Mansion. Please makesure that your child arrives to school on time, as we will be leaving promptly at9 a.m.

Valentine Party in Room 16....

Classroom Notes from Ms. Ross Third Grade ‐ Room 17

Oregon State Reading Assessments have been delayed to next Monday,February 23rd. Please make sure that all of our students get enough sleep thenight before. The test is especially challenging to students who are sleepdeprived.There is no ABC HOMEWORK this week. Instead, the students have to select afavorite book that they will use for a “Book Talk.” This book talk will be used for their oﬃcial speech work sample. All third graders are required to participate ina scored speech work sample. The criteria for the speech work sample is thesame as a writing work sample, except that there is a score for delivering thespeech, and there is no score for conventions‐ spelling and punctuation. Thebook is due at school this Monday, February 23rd. The book should be ageappropriate, interesting to a third grade audience. I am sending home a letter with more details about the criteria. Your help is very valuable to get thisproject oﬀ to a good start.

News from Mrs. Bennett’s Classroom

Our two beautiful terrariums are ready for the auction! Thanks to KathyBartlett we have two exquisite pieces that would look beautiful in any home!One has a desert theme with landscape and plants that ﬁt that environment,and the other has a rain forest feel with luscious growth and landscape tomatch it. The students loved adding “pieces” for the landscapes and putting

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