News From Mrs. Rowe and Mr. Miller
We enjoyed celebrating “Read Across America” week in our classrooms with
a handful of fun events: PJ Day, Read-in, Inside Out Clothes, and Hat Day.
You can see what the entire school was up to this week, to celebrate, by
checking out #IREReads on Twitter.
We hope that you have a wonderful weekend with your families! As always, if
you have any questions, please feel free to email us.
Mrs. Angela Rowe & Mr. Dave Miller
March 4, 2016
Reading & Writing Workshop
Math Workshop
In reading workshop this week, we spent some
In math workshop we are dividing
time looking at traditional literature and
decimals with decimals. We
identifying what parts of the text help us
just started this unit on
comprehend the story and get to the lesson
Friday and will continue it into
of the fables.
next week.
In writing workshop, we completed our
informational writing pieces. These were
turned in and will be graded. Once students
completed their informational writing pieces,
they had some time to free write. There are a
variety of writing styles happening from
narratives, poetry, and comics to new
research writing and newspapers.
Word Study
This week in word study we completed our Greek
and Latin root unit on super, sur (meaning over).
The test for this unit was on Thursday, February
25.
Science
This week in science we are
learning about energy. We spent
some time looking at the
difference between kinetic
energy and potential energy. We
also looked at the concept of
transfer of energy.
Important Dates to Know
March 4: Bingo/Family Game Night @ IRE
March 21-25: Spring Break
April 12-13: Language Arts State Tests
April 21: Family Night, No Homework
April 25-29: Book Fair
April 26-27: Math State Tests
April 28: Related Arts Night 5:30-7:00pm