Weekly News - March 4th

Week of March 3rd - 8th.

Dear Parents,

This week's update looks a bit different as on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday we will be finishing up Student Led Conference (SLC) preparation. Here are some photos from the week.

Student-led conferences are scheduled for Thursday, March 7 and Friday, March 8. Your child will be the most important part of this conference, so they are required to attend. As your child leads the discussion by reflecting on his/her learning, sharing his/her goals, and celebrating his/her successes, please be ready to ask follow up questions. These are the type of questions to ask your child as they are leading the conference:

• How did you make this?
• Why did you choose this?
• What does this work show about you?
• What did you learn from this?
• What was the easy or difficult part of this?
• What do you like best about this?
• What more do you want to improve in, or learn?
• Tell me about this.

There will be other conferences in the classroom going on at the same time. Please note that this conference could take up to 45 minutes (but it won't overlap with any sibling conference time). After this time you will go with your child to any specialist teacher you choose to finish off the conference.

We begin this week on DAY 8.

Please note that with the short week, home learning will be for two weeks and will be shared in class on Friday, March 15th.

Weeks of March 6 and March 13. Please complete 2 activities and bring in to share on Friday, March 17.

Math: Teach a member of your family how to find the area of an object.	Language arts: Think about a book club book or a book you have read independently. What was the climax?	Language arts: What are 3 things you learned about writing opinion pieces?
Math: Teach someone a strategy you use to solve tricky multiplication facts.	Social Studies: Choose a civilization and write about the location of that civilization and why it was important.	Other: Organize a section of your room. Could be your bookshelf, toys, stuffed animals, etc.

Remember: Reading is just what we do. It is expected each night.