Weekly Update

Hi Parents,

Happy Friday!  Thank you for the tissues and Clorox wipes!   We celebrated Dr. Seuss all week. Fine Arts Night was a great family activity! Time is clicking along, and the calendar is filling fast!  The kids are working to fill our Marble Jar and earn an opportunity to bring a toy to school. :)

We started talking about maps this week, and I showed the kids these two AWESOME videos.  I promised I'd include a link in this week's blog so they can watch from home.  THEY ARE SO COOL!!!!!!  I hope you like them too.  :)

Tour the States (about the United States):

Tour the World:

Pinebrook Yearbooks are on Sale:
Please click HERE for information about ordering your child's Pinebrook yearbook.  Yearbook orders are optional.  The deadline to order is April 24th.  

Camp STEAM-tacular:
Camp STEAM-tacular is coming to Pinebrook this summer.  Please click HERE for more information and to register your child.

Focus Areas for the Coming Week:

• Reading:  We will talk about how good readers use context clues to figure out the meaning of unknown words.  
• Writing:  We will continue our opinion writing unit as we focus on editing our writing for mechanics, punctuation, and proper sight word spelling.
• Math:  We will begin a quick little unit on Fact Families.  Fact families are made up of 2 addition sentences and 2 subtraction sentences, which all contain the same numbers.  Fact families are sometimes called "related facts".  For example:
• 2+3=5
• 3+2=5
• 5-2=3
• 5-3=2
• Social Studies:  We will continue our Maps unit.  We will explore cardinal directions,  map keys and map symbols, and construct a map of a familiar area.

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

Sunday looks like a perfect day to start the spring clean up in the yard.  I am looking forward to some time outside.  Have a fantastic weekend!