Week 30

Important Dates and Information:

• March 20 - Report Cards Go Home
• April 7 - 11 - Student Holiday - No School

Report Cards:  Report cards go home on Thursday, March 20.  Please sign and return white cards and brown envelope in your child's yellow folder.  You may keep your child's report card.  Thanks!

Thank you to Marvin's parents for providing pizza cooking supplies last week!  Students are learning how to write simple directions.  They wrote a story about how to make a pizza last week and then they were able to make and enjoy it on Friday!

We still need supplies!  We still need...glue sticks, headphones for the computer lab, and cooking supplies.  If you are able to help with cooking supplies please send a note in your child's yellow folder that you are willing to donate items.

Don't forget to bring in your plastic eggs...filled with goodies and taped by tomorrow (Wednesday, March 19).  Please do not send in a basket or bag with your child.  Students will be making their own in school.

Thank you!

Highlights from the Classroom:

Language Arts/Reading:  handwriting, guided reading groups, writing first and last name, sequencing (beginning, middle, end), review literary elements (author, illustrator, character, setting, problem, solution), simple directions writing using graphic organizers, editing marks, phonics, blending, sight words, and computers.  Please read library books at home at least two times and ask questions to help with comprehension.

Math: Daily Math RAP (calendar, months of the year, days of the week, today, yesterday, tomorrow, tens, ones, daily number work, season - winter, power line, graphing, money), review money (fair trade, penny, nickel, dime, quarter), addition (building numbers to 10), Mega Math, math problem solving, and math journals.

Science:  We have continued our study of plants.  How do I explain that plants are alike and different?  How do I group plants by their characteristics?  Compare/Contrast using a Venn diagram.

We celebrated and learned about St. Patrick's Day too!

Ways to help at home!

Students need to know how to write their first and last names this nine weeks.  We have been practicing, but please practice at home too.  Coins - practice identifying coins by name and their values (penny, nickel, dime, and quarter), practice counting out pennies to trade for a nickel and a dime.  Continue to practice home mailing address, telephone number, and birthday, read nightly, continue studying sight words, practice handwriting, and allow students to write in a journal at home.

Contact Information for Ms. Discepola:  naomi.discepola@cobbk12.org

Blog Address:  http://dowell.typepad.com/black/

Dowell Elementary:  2121 West Sandtown Road  Marietta, GA  30064 Phone:  678 594 8059

Dowell Elementary Website:  http://www.cobbk12.org/~dowell/