Dear Players and Parents,

           It's been a great start back from the relaxing March break!

Writing:
The first couple of days back, students wrote a paragraph about their March break in their writing books.  I will send it home for your to sign and return this week.

CHALLENGES FACING STUDENTS:

1. Creative but detailed topic sentence.

I want students to move away from writing this kind of topic sentence...
      NO!  'My March break was awesome.' 

instead, write...
      YES!  'This March break I spent an amazing four days with my 
                         family in Toronto doing all kinds of interesting activities!'

The second topic sentence actually tells the reader what they are going to be writing about and answers who, where, and when.  Please read over your child's paragraph and discuss ways to bump up their level by improving on areas where they earned a low level on the rubric. 

     2.  Editing and Revising

Students simple do not want to take the necessary time needed to go through a check list to make sure they have correctly editted and revised their writing.  Here is the check list that I have available for EVERY student to attach to their writing tasks.  I will glue a copy of each to their writing books and THRoW books so that you can make sure they use these very helpful tools after writing.

MATH - We will be wrapping up our portion on Fractions in Number Sense this Friday.  Please review with your child tonight and tomorrow by going concepts in their blue duo tangs.

That is all for now,

Coach Wilson

SECRET QUESTION:  Which is larger, one half or three quarters of a pie?  Illustrate to support your answer.