McFarland-Mayberry-Begley Bulletin

for the week of March 21, 2016

Due Dates / Upcoming Events:

Monday, March 28th - Weekly reading logs due

Tuesday, March 29th - Home link due

Wednesday, March 30th - Early Release Wednesday

Thursday, March 31st -  Spelling due / ABL

Friday, April 1st - Home link due/ Monthly reading calendars due

It’s been quite a week!  With good fortune, we had 100% attendance all week, so no make-up tests for the McFarlands next week; in all my years, that has never happened!

Academic Updates:

 

No Reading or Writing updates this week.  Instead, here’s what we were up to this week:

• Testing
• Painting birds with watercolors and Sharpies
• Testing
• Reading from our new HF read aloud, Blood on the Riverrrrrrrr (ask your child how we say the title in the classroom)
• Testing
• Reading two old favorites, The Day the Crayons Quit and The Day the Crayons Came Home
• Testing
• Doing some “free-style” artwork with beloved crayons
• Testing
• Watching the movie “Newsies” in honor of our Greely ⅘ Color Guard
• Testing
• Doing some reflections in preparation for parent-teacher conferences
• Testing
• Playing Bingo!
• Testing

Math

Due to the MEAs, we did not have any math to speak of this week.

Spelling

No spelling this week, due to testing.

Theme

Due to testing, I only saw the Mayberrys and McFarlands one time during the week.  During this time we continued grading the states projects and completed reflections for conferences.  Next week we will start a short unit on landforms.  Check out my website for new resources!