Hello! I am so proud of the students for their hard work during ISAT week! I am sure they are all happy that they do not have to worry about those tests until next year. Our movie party was awesome! We just finished reading The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, so we started watching the movie Friday afternoon. We didn't quite finish the movie, so we will continue watching on Monday.

There were many notes that went home in Friday Folders. Here are some of the highlights:

• Picture Day has been rescheduled for Monday, March 18th.
• Scholastic Book Orders are due Friday, March 15th. This will be one of the last book orders of the school year.
• Please send ecosystem items by Monday.

The Week Ahead

English: We will continue our unit about capitalization and punctuation. For writing, we will begin working on sentence fluency.

Math: Saxon homework will be starting up again this week. We will learn to subtract across zero, identify units of weight and mass, tell and show time to the quarter hour, show fractional amounts greater than 1, and measure and draw line segments to the nearest quarter inch.

Reading: We will be reading a story called Cocoa Ice. We will also compare and contrast the two locations discussed in the story, we will practice making mental images as we read, and we will learn how to paraphrase from a text.

Science: We will work on our ecosystems

Social Studies: We will begin a unit on Illinois that will connect with our upcoming field trip!

I hope everyone is having a nice weekend, and that the students are resting up after a long week of testing!

Please feel free to contact me at bcalcott@orionschools.us with any questions or concerns. You can also leave me a voicemail by calling the school.