March 14-18

It is so nice to see the return of warmer weather!  Here is what we will be working on this week in English class:

• phonics: murmur diphthongs ar, er, ir, or, & ur
• phonics: assessment on murmur diphthongs
• phonics: roots, prefixes, & suffixes
• writing: begin new informational writing activity - we will be researching an animal, reading books about that animal, and pulling information from the books to use in our writing.
• reading: use Theodore Roosevelt book to learn more about text features and how readers use them to find information quickly (objective: readers understand that illustrations in literary texts and specific features in informational texts can help them understand what they read).
• science: the blue class began investigating states of matter last week (the red class is doing it in Spanish class), and we will continue that investigation throughout this week.

We are having our annual Leadership Day on Wednesday, March 16th.  We will have an opening assembly at 1:00, and then you will be able to tour the school to learn more about how students at Bridger are learning to be leaders.

Dancing With the Students

Mrs. Marchant and Mrs. Harward will be performing at Our Dancing For the Students night again this year.  They would like to include DLI students in their dance performance.  If your child would like to participate please e-mail Mrs. Marchant (whitney.marchant@loganschools.org) or Mrs. Harward (natalie.harward@loganschools.org) by Monday, March 7th.  The performance will be on March 18th at 7 PM.

March 7-11

We have a several great events this week: Monday - students that made their AR goal get to go bowling @ 9:30 (76% of 2nd grade DLI students made their goal!! - That's a fabulous improvement over last trimester when only 33% of our students made it). Tuesday - Irish dance assembly @ 1:30 Thursday - Volunteer Recognition Night @ 6:00 PM

Here is what we will be working on in English class this week:

• phonics: assessment (synonyms, antonyms, homophones, homonyms, decoding 2 syllable words, spelling multi-syllabic words that end with /k/)
• phonics: murmur diphthongs AR, OR, & ER
• writing: continue working on our shared version of informational writing (we are writing about things to do in Logan)
• reading: continue reading Theodore Roosevelt (this ties in with our informational writing - students are learning about how to pull information from a text and use it as facts/details in writing)

We haven't set new AR goals yet (we don't know what date to put in since we haven't been able to get hold of anyone at the Aquatic Center to confirm that as the reward), but they can still take tests that will count towards the new goal when it is set.