National Turn Your TV Off Week is coming up next week - April 19 - 23. The Manatee class will be participating in our annual challenge to keep our TV turned off all week. The class be singing this song,
Gotta Keep Reading in the classroom every day. A coupon book will be coming home in the Wednesday Go-Home Envelope. Thre is a coupon for each day of the week, along with a packet of information. Every day your child does not watch TV, please send in the corresponding coupon, signed by you, to school. We will create a graph to observe our progress over the week. Our class will be competing with other classes for an ice cream party. We are also challenging the Manatees to bring in 175 coupons. Good Luck!
Family Journals
Students will using their composition notebooks as Family Journals for the rest of the school year. The purpose of the journal is for students to practice letter-writing skills by corresponding with a family member. Your child will write the first letter to a family member, bring it home, and that family member will write to respond. This Friday, April 16th will be the first day of letter-writing. Your child will bring their Family Journal home on Friday. You will have the weekend to reply to their letter. They will bring it back to school on Monday, and write an answer back. You will have three days to write in response. (Directions and examples will be attached to the inside of the notebook).
This will be the regular cyclic schedule: Family Journals on Mondays and Fridays, writing to prompts on Wednesday mornings, and math reviews on Tuesdays and Thursdays. This will be our second year of using Family Journals. The students love the authentic audience. Happy Writing!
