Weekly News

Important Dates:

Feb 22- Wear blue (stand up to bullying)
Feb 28- Early Day
March 1- Early Day
March 5- Favorite Person Day
March 5-7 Parent Teacher Conferences
March 8- No school


Announcements:
Make sure that you sign up for parent teacher conferences.  Times are filling up fast. 
1. go to www.butler.canyonsdistrict.org
2. select the Online Scheduler icon
3. choose Butler Elementary
4. password bobcats
5. you should be able to do the rest from there.  Let me know if you have any problems.

We wanted to also thank those mom's that came in to help with our Valentine's Parties.  They were a lot of fun! 

English: 

Our question of the week is, "Why are some changes difficult?" We will be reading, The Night the Moon Fell. It explains how the Maya people made up a myth long ago to try to explain a natural event that happens in the sky. 
Writing skill: We are learning how to write a Narrative Poem.
Our phonics /spelling pattern: syllable patterns vc/cv v/cv
Comprehension skill: We are learning about plot and theme.  We will also be talking about how we can use information from the illustrations to help us understand the characters, setting or plot better. 
Conventions: Adverbs that tell when and where
Vocabulary skill: using context clues to understand the meaning of multiple meaning words.
Fluency skill:expression

Math:

Please make sure that students have completed topic 11 on the online math homework.  Students should also begin working on topic 12 on fractions.  We have been talking about symmetry, translation, reflection, and rotation.  Also something you can work with your child at home would be rounding to the nearest ten.  (ex: 44 would round to 40, 67 would round to 70).  Rounding is a skill that hasn't been taught in the French class, but only in English.  Rounding is very helpful when we are estimating sums or differences.  A great real world example of rounding is going grocery shopping and estimating how much everything will cost.

French:

We are learning the /g/  /gu/ sounds this week.

 Science:

We are talking about the phases of the moon.