Happy Monday!!

I hope everyone was able to get out and enjoy the wonderful Spring-like weather we had. I wanted to thank everyone for coming to our slide show presentations. The first graders worked hard on these and were so excited to share them with everyone. Check out the photo collage of your child presenting at the bottom of this blog. If you or a family member was unable to attend I will put your child's slideshow on our blog next week so your first grader can present it again to those that missed it. With the spring weather comes spring sports. They are so much fun and take up a lot of time. Please try to put school first and make sure your child reads and completes IXL or math homework every night.Reminders --Spring Break - Begins on Friday, March 17. We return to school on Monday March 27th. I hope everyone has something fun planned. The students and teacher are looking forward to a break especially with this great weather we have been having. Conferences - Parent teacher conferences will begin Friday, March 31. Look for the sign up genius. It will be sent out within the next couple of days.Yearbooks - This is the last week to order a year book.Last week we wrote Acrostic and Color poems. We drew self portraits of our selves for our poetry books. We completed our slideshow presentations on the animal we researched. This week we will...

• Continue our poetry unit by writing I Wish poems, Haiku's and Limericks.
• Use the chrome book to type up one of the poems from their poetry books.
• Complete end of the quarter assessments.

**Due to assessments your child may not have a book each night. If your child does not bring a book home please choose a book that they can read to you and sign th

**NO SPELLING THIS WEEK

Slide show of our presentations

Create a picture collage

Math News from Mrs. Garcia

Happy Monday!

It’s Spring Break week!  The students and teachers are excited for a fun and relaxing break before 4th quarter begins!  I hope that your family is doing something fun and exciting.  Be safe!

This week the students will be busy completing mini - assessments in order to get an accurate grade for 3rd quarter report cards.  

The students will continue to work on adding to 100 using the “Branch Method.”  This week we will focus on the “Branch Method” in order to add within 100.

Examples of the “Branch Method”

Adding 2-digits to 1-digit Adding 2-digits to a multiple of 10

13  +  5 = ___ 27  +   20 = ___

     ↙  ↘     ↘      ↙   ↘    ↙  ↘

  10  +  (3  +  5) = ___   20  +  7 + 20 + 0 = ___

   10  +  8 = 18  (20 + 20) + (7 + 0) = ___

                                                      40    +   7     = 47

Week 28 Homework

March 13th - 16th

Monday	Branch Addition Worksheet - 2-digit to 1-digit
Tuesday	Branch Addition - 2-digit to 2-digit
Wednesday	Branch Addition - 2-digit to 2-digit
Thursday	No Homework - Spring Break!

Have a great week!

Mrs. Rowlett & Miss Garcia