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.

February 29 - March 4

Sorry for the late posting!  Here is what we will be working on in English class this week:

• phonics: antonyms and synonyms
• phonics: decoding 2 syllable words
• phonics: spelling with c
• writing: finish writing assessment (writing is a multi-day process for us - there have been so many kids missing days lately that it has taken us twice as long to get everyone caught up and finished)
• writing: begin informative writing process
• reading: continue reading about Theodore Roosevelt

Thursday is Mystery Bear night.  To attend, you must have already returned to notification slip to the school.

Friday is a half-day.  School will be out at 12:00

February 22-26

Wow, time is really flying by lately!  I can't believe that February is almost over.  Here is what we will be working on this week in English class:

• phonics: assessment - decoding skill #2 (2 consonants will split), conjunctions, -le at the end of words, double consonants
• phonics: adding suffixes to words ending in -y
• phonics: decoding 2-syllable words
• phonics: synonyms and antonyms
• writing: I decided that the kids needed more practice before the assessment so we are currently working on our third practice round of personal narrative.  We will probably finish on Tuesday, and begin the assessment on Wednesday.
• reading: begin Theodore Roosevelt: The Adventurous President (objectives - to use text features to locate important information, to read and comprehend informational text, to recount key ideas, to ask and answer questions)

The Who Stole Mr. Bear Mystery Night has been moved to March 3rd.  It sounds like it will be great fun.  I hope you can make it!

District Flyers

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February 16-19

I hope everyone had a restful break.  Here is what we will be working on in English class this week:

• phonics: conjunctions (click on the conductor!)
• phonics: double consonants (when double consonants occur in a multi-syllabic word, the first of the two double consonants is usually not pronounced)
• phonics: words ending with -le
• writing: assessment on personal narrative (prompt - write about a time when you did something with your family)
• reading: poetry - read two different poems and discuss how the themes in the poetry relate to the story I Wanna Iguana - compare and contrast the poetry and text (objectives: ask and answer questions relating to details, and understand characters, setting, and plot)
• reading: compare and contrast Money Matters and I Wanna Iguana