We have had a great week of school! Below is some important
information.
No School Tomorrow
CPS will NOT have school tomorrow due to the ice storm that is
supposed to be coming towards us. Below is the email that was sent out to
CPS families from the district. Please stay safe & warm!
We have been monitoring weather forecasts and consulting with our
community partners. Experts indicate the storm is imminent and the
weather event will be significant. Emergency operations,
county, city and MoDOT partners have requested that we consider not being in
session tomorrow, Friday, January 13. While we hesitate to cancel
based on a forecast, with these factors in mind, we believe it is in the best
interest of safety for our students that Columbia Public Schools not be
in session tomorrow, Friday, January 13.
We were already scheduled to not have school on Monday in
observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. - so stay safe and warm & enjoy your
4-day weekend!
Friday Folder
Due to us not having school tomorrow I did send home your child's
Friday Folder today. There are several graded papers inside. In
addition to these papers there are 2 important things that are also included.
- FREE book certificate: Since we went on our field trip to Daniel Boone
Regional Library (DBRL), they sent us a coupon for a free book. Take
your child & his/her coupon to either the DBRL or a bookmobile stop to
receive a FREE book! :)
- Chat & Chew Enrollment Form: Chat & Chew is a book club that meets during
lunch. A book assignment is given & the student reads the
assignment at home & meets during lunch with a parent volunteer &
other Chat & Chew readers to discuss the book. If your child would
like to participate please send in the enrollment form by next Friday,
January 20th.
In Math, we started our Addition Unit with Regrouping. We
practiced 2 different addition strategies to help us solve 2-digit addition
problems: hundreds chart & the break apart method. We also learned
about how to know if an addition problem will need to be regrouped.
In Reading, we continued to work on making sure that
we included all the parts in our reading responses. We also practiced
reading nonfiction texts and answering questions from the text. There are
some examples of this work coming home in Friday Folders today. We
started learning about past-tense words. Next week, we will focus of the
pattern of adding ed suffix to words to make them past-tense. A base word
that is CVC - you double the consonant and then add ed, a base word that is VVC
- you just add ed. Our words next week are: snapped, dripped, zipped,
shouted, cheered, spoiled, stirred, chopped, pointed & chained.
In Writing, we started researching an animal topic
of each person's choice. We practiced taking notes and keeping our notes
organized by heading. We used a website called PebbleGo and also read
books to find out about our animal. Next week, we will start turning our
notes into paragraphs.
Have a wonderful weekend!
Mrs. Ross
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