Week of Jan 27th

Mrs.Oparaji’s Team

                            January 27^th-31th

WE had a compliment party this past Friday and we are already filling our jar up for the third time. Way to go, kiddos!!!!

Book orders will be in soon!!!!

Today we will make oobleck in class to discuss states of matter

There is no school for students on Thurs. and Fri.

WE will have a Super Bowl Party in class on Wednesday!(Details at the bottom of newsletter)

toparaji@iwcs.k12.va.us

Reading: SOLs:

Reading    2.8b Make and confirm predictions

2.8d Set a purpose for reading (text features)

Vocabulary      2.6f Use vocabulary from other content areas

Writing 2.12e Organize information in writing or a visual display.

Science 2.1 Demonstrate an understanding of scientific and engineering practices

asking questions and defining problems 2.3 Investigate and understand matter can exist in different phases

c) heating and cooling can change the phases of matter

(K.3 investigate and understand physical properties can be described by a. color b. shapes/forms c. texture d. relative size & weight)

(1.3 investigate and understand objects are made from materials that can be described by their physical properties: a. objects are made of one or more materials with different physical properties b. when an object is changed in size most physical properties remain the same)

Some friends are not completing their reading assignment on a nightly basis It will be logged the same as last year, and the expectation is that students read 30 minutes. Also, please have them log in two steps and place your signature beside it. On a daily basis, we should have 4 steps. The time may be broken into intervals. PLEASE SIGN READING LOGS NIGHTLY

Science: We will be working on states of matter( we will be making oobleck in the class on Monday to show changes of matter

Math Review of all skills from this nine weeks: even and odd, subtracting and adding with regrouping, place value, greater than and less than, and ordinal numbers

Homework

Do your know your power goal?

Monday   read 2 steps, st math

Tuesday: 2 steps; ST MATH

Wednesday : 2 steps; ST MATH; super bowl party

Thursday: Have some quality family time; read for 30 mins and log in two steps; ST MATH

Friday: 2 steps

Important Dates

*Monday, January 27        260 Steps    Library

*Tuesday, January 21       264 Steps    Engineering

*Wednesday, January 22    268 Steps    P.E

Upcoming Events

· January 29:  End of the 2^nd Nine Weeks/1^st Semester

· January 30:  No School (Teacher Workday)

· January 31:  No School (Professional Development Day)

Super Bowl Party: The students will rotate through Super Bowl themed literacy stations:

*read a step while reading leveled football readers

*”Playing” with words- 2 syllables words and game board

* Casey’s Super Bowl comprehension passage ad questions

* Super Bowl Prediction: students write their prediction for the outcome of the Super bowl

* and chips and salsa

We are looking for fathers 2 to 3(moms are welcome too ) who can help out with the rotations