Week of March 2

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Literacy: We are continuing our work on Narrative Writing and working on fleshing out the main even of our story.  We introduced the idea of having a character try unsuccessfully to solve their problem a couple of times before solving the problem.  While we have been looking at all the different pieces of a story, we are now trying to put those pieces together to create a complete short story.

 Math: We are working on applying our multiplication skills to solving problems. We are also going to begin looking at division this week.

 Science: Mr Spackman (our student teacher) has started teaching us a new unit about Testing Materials and Building Things.

 Social Studies: We complete an art project that we started on Friday recreating Peruvian Arpilleras (a quilt type art piece that depicts daily life in Peru). Later this week we are going to write a descriptive paragraph explaining what is being shown in our Arpillera. Our Peru Feast is on Friday. If you have contacted Miss Kowal about bringing in a dish, please let her know if you are going to send it with your child in the morning or drop it off at the school by 11.




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