No School Tomorrow
Our Question of the Day today was if we thought that there would be school tomorrow. The kiddos predicted correctly.
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.
Special Readers
Today, we had 2 special readers. Aubrey shared a Mo Willems book, Pigeon Wants a Puppy and Lexi shared a book that she wrote Piggie & Gerald Go to the Movies. It is so neat to see how the students have grown as readers & writers and want to share what their doing with the class! :)
Have a wonderful weekend!
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