Hello Lincoln Families,
Thank you to everyone who can chaperone our Lansing field trip and help with snacks! Remember, if you are interested in chaperoning please turn in your slip along with $8. They are due by April 11th. Also If you are able to donate snacks for the trip, we will need snacks from our "safe snacks" list.
If you already turned in the form, you are in and I will be sharing a list with everyone's contact info to arrange to carpool. Volunteer forms and background checks are required to be a chaperone, so Mrs. Kauffman in the office will be checking to see who still needs to complete that paperwork and will send home the papers with your child after the break.
The field trips we will be taking this spring are listed below. We will need chaperones for Lansing and the Kalamazoo Valley Museum, so I wanted to make sure there was enough time for those interested to request time off work in advance. The Lansing trip lasts all day, but the Kalamazoo Valley Museum trip is only in the morning. More information will be coming as we get closer!
5/5 - Lansing Field Trip (chaperones)
5/24 - Kalamazoo Valley Museum Field Trip (this trip is pending, if we are able to go we will need chaperones)
6/3 - Sarett/Grand Mere Park Dunes Field Trip ( no chaperones)
We will have a READ-IN next Thursday, March 31st the last day before Spring Break! This will be a closing celebration for March Reading Month, which has been spectacular! Students can bring in snacks from our "safe snack" list (with labels and no clear baggies), a clear drink, stuffed animals, comfy clothes, and of course lots and lots of amazing books!
Snack Information
To help reduce this from happening, we ask that no student brings any products containing peanuts/ may contain peanuts/ or produced on shared equipment that also processes peanuts into the classroom.
In addition, please provide snacks that are unopened with ingredients listed on the back of the package. Many students are bringing clear plastic bags with opened food in them, which leaves room for unsafe snacks to enter the classroom without knowing what is in the food. SNACKS MUST HAVE A LABEL. NO CLEAR BAGGIES.
If a student does bring unsafe food products into the classroom, they will be asked to place them back into their backpacks to return home.
Please click on this peanut-sensitive safe foods list link. We appreciate your support with these procedures.
Chromebook Reminders
* Charge computer
*Leave charge cord at home
*Bring CB in case
*Pack-up Backpack
*Bring to school every day
Important Dates
No School 4/1: Spring Break Begins!
Spring Break: 4/4 - 4/8
School Resumes: 4/11
Late Start Days: 4/13, 4/20, 4/27
Swimming Days: 4/20, 4/27
Lansing Field Trip: 5/5
Sarett/Grand Mere Park Dunes Field Trip: 6/3
4th Grade Kiwanis Park: 6/7
This Week's Academic Focus
Reading: Students all have a new individual reading goal that has been recorded in their "reader's notebooks". We will continue meeting weekly in small groups and individual reading conferences. These strategies are intended to be added to their "reading tool kit". The mini-lessons over the next few weeks will be to focus on text structures. For example, compare/contrast, cause/effect, time/order/sequence, description in certain fiction and non-fiction text.
Writing: Our next writing goal will focus on informational writing which will be connected with social studies. Here is a rough draft example of a finished presentation: Historical Event
Math: We will begin Unit 4-5: Hundredths to Hundred-Thousands (adding and subtracting large numbers, multiplication, and division) If your child needs extra practice IXL/IM in Unit 5 lessons 1-18 is available.
Link to families for Unit 5 Multiplicative Comparison and Measurement
Link to families for Unit 4 Hundredths to Hundredred-Thousands
Link to families for Unit 3 Extending Operations to Fractions
Link to families for Unit 2: Fraction Equivalence and Comparison
Illustrative Mathematics. (Here is the link if you are interested in looking at the program).
Science: Human Machine will be our next unit. However, our focus this next week will be social studies.
Link to Mystery Science: Human Machine
Link to Mystery Science Energizing Everything Unit is finished. Our focus will be on Social Studies. This week. Our next science unit will be Human Machine.
Social Studies: The focus will be Physical Geography: The United States in Spatial Terms
Positivity Project focus this week is Humor.
Back-to-School Night Presentation
If you were unable to attend Back-to-School Night above are the slides. The field trip permission slip went home with your child. Please sign and return as soon as possible if you haven't already. If you would like to make a donation for the field trips, please go to slide six and click on the link. Thank you.
Weekly Specials Schedule
No letter days this year!
Lunch 12:30-1:20: Specials will be the last 45 minutes of the day 3:05-3:50: A.M. Recess will be from 9:40-9:55 and P.M. Recess from 2:25-2:40 every day.
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