We had a very exciting week. On Tuesday the Orion Fire Department came to discuss fire safety with the students. I was impressed by the thoughtful questions that were asked during the presentation. It was also very exciting that Mrs. McConaghy gave us all of the artwork that was completed this year during art. I'm sure you enjoyed looking through the beautiful artwork that your child came home with! Friday Folders contained another set of School Carnival forms. This only went home with the oldest child in each family. This is a great way to support our PTA. If you are able to volunteer on the 26th, please do. I will be volunteering on this night as well.
I saw some of you at the OEF Gala on Friday night. This was my first time attending this event, and I was super impressed with the community's willingness to bid on items to benefit the district! Orion is an awesome community!

The Week Ahead
English: We have been working on a poetry unit. We will also start a unit on pronouns this week.
Math: We will learn to write number sentences for division story problems, multiply a multiple of 10, 100, or 1,000 by a single digit number, make a table to solve a problem, identify translations, rotations, and reflections, find  a fractional part of a set, and determine age.
Reading: We will be reading an informational article this week called, Rocking and Rolling. We will also work on location information within a text, we will learn how to adjust reading rate, we will find cause and effect within the text, and we will discuss homographs.
Science: We will continue our space unit. The students are loving this unit!
Social Studies: We will learn about Harlem and Jazz.

I hope everyone is having a nice weekend! Please feel free to contact me at bcalcott@orionschools.us with any questions or concerns. Please enjoy these pictures from the field trip we took before Spring Break.