Week 24

Mid Winter Break is here!
Students received an optional homework packet with some review and preview work. Each child is required to continue reading and to log their reading for the Readathon. The Readathon ends on February 24. Please bring any sponsor money when we return to school on the 27th.

Here's what will be coming after the break:

• I will be out on Tuesday for a Teacher's College meeting about Test Prep.
• The Unit six Math test will be on Thursday.
• March's First Friday will involve an activity with the Gardening Committee.
• Finally, the answer to the poll question , 38 divided by 4 will have a remainder of 2. Great job voter! Check out our new poll.

Have a wonderful recess!

Week 23

Please remember that there will be no Saturday school this upcoming weekend due to the Mid Winter Break. For families who have asked if they can still enroll their child in Saturday program, please speak with Mr. Ortiz. There are still six sessions left before the testing in April.

Here's what's coming up next week:

• We will be at the Armory this Tuesday.
• We are starting our interpretation unit. Children will continue book clubs but they may not all focus on the same genres. Children will read picture books, historical fiction, realistic fiction non fiction or fantasy. The goal of this unit is to improve interpretation skills and to read with the ability to find common themes and ideas.
• We will wrap up our unit on Explorers in Social Studies and begin learning about Colonial New York. Your child recieved a permission slip for a trip to the Wyckoff Farmhouse in June. Please send in the form and admission as we need to send in a deposit soon.

Thanks and have a cozy weekend!

Week 22

First Friday was so fun! We had a fantastic experience with Jeremy and Lily, two instructors from the Brooklyn Yoga School. Our thanks to Ms. Rao who made this session happen!

 If you are interested in taking classes, please check out the website, BrooklynYogaSchool.com.

Here's what to expect for next week: 

• Saturday School begins this weekend. We have Mrs. Freader, a teacher from our sister school, PS 107, as our test prep instructor. 
• This will be the last week of Fantasy book club. Our students are making progress not just reading for a literal recall of the story, but interpreting characters and lessons to be learned through these stories. 
• Our next reading unit will focus solely at Interpretation and we will look at a variety of texts, including poems and songs. This unit will challenge students to look at texts and see lessons and messages that apply to our own experience. We will also look at the universality of these themes as we examine how multiple texts convey similar messages. 
• We began unit 6 in math. This unit will center on long division strategies. It is important to keep working with multiplication facts including extended facts, which will be very helpful when we study the partial quotients method. The unit five math test was sent home on Thursday. Please review and sign the test so that it can be returned by Monday.
• The answer to our poll question, 83 * 28 is about... 2400. Good work to all the voters! Check out our new question!

Thank you and have a wonderful weekend!