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Newsletter for Week of Feb. 24th, 2014 = Week in Review = We completed our Science unit on Solids and Liquids and now we will turn our efforts to Social Studies. We will begin with the qualities of good citizenship, the importance of rules, important people in our country's history, and symbols important to the United States. Mrs. Melichar is providing our children the opportunity to play the music to a beat and experience all of the instruments. They are concentrating so hard to play it correctly. The xylophones (wooden bars) were used to play the melody of a song named Valentine. On the metallophones the students played the beat on a repeating pattern and added accents with the glockenspiels. The 2014-2015 [|school calendar] has just been confirmed and published. Scroll down the LC Connection and be sure you have a copy on hand as you make future plans.

= = This week we will be reading a non-fiction selection entitled "Animal Teams". If we can't go on a winter vacation, we will be able to use our skills of visualizing and retelling our adventures as we progress through our selection. We can feel like we could swim deep in the ocean or travel to the hot, dusty plains on a safari. Our skills will be practicing "y" as a final long e, high-frequency words, and comprehension of the story material. We will also be introduced to an **adverb** that explains //when something is happening//, review contractions, and complete our third book.
 * Reading **

Vocabulary for "Animal Teams"
behavior...group...plead...soar...vivid ...beautiful...danger...also...because blue...other...or...until...yummy...tiny...bumpy...puppy...funny...penny sandy...bunny

 Our next chapter we will be introducing the seven sacraments to the children. We will learn a little bit about each sacrament and a significant symbol related to it. We will talk about how God uses words, actions, and material elements to help us share in His grace and celebrate His love and care for us. The seven sacrements presented will be **Baptism • Penance and Reconciliation • Eucharist**
 * Religion **
 * Confirmation • Anointing of the Sick • Matrimony • Holy Orders . **

We have been working on fact families and telling time. Fact families will cement the importance of how addition and subtraction relate to each other. 3+4=7 then 4+3=7 reviews the commutative property we learned earlier this year. We will see how subtraction relates to addition by using the same numbers in the equations of 7-3=4 and 7-4=3 and seeing how just the three numbers of 3, 4, and 7 are used for this entire fact family. In practicing telling time, we are working on an analog clock. The children and I have been enjoying my two favorite sites -- [| Stop the Clock] and later [|Bang on Time]. We have displayed them on our SMARTboard not only in our morning routine, but also in our math groupings. Telling time is a concept based on readiness. **Practice is so very important.** We need to make sure we can count hours and half hours of time. We have now begun our next set of standards working on fact families and telling time.
 * Math **

related facts...addition equations...subtraction equations...minute hand...hour hand...half past...digital time...analog clock...half hour
 * Vocabulary for Fact Families and Time **

= Riddles of the Week = To get his quarter back. Because she always ran away from the ball.
 * Why did the football coach go to the bank?**
 * Why did they kick Cinderella off the baseball team?**

=**Important Dates** =  [|2014-2015 Academic Calendar]  Feb. 26th.....................[|Young Rembrandts]   Feb. 28th.....................[|Cousins Sub Lunch], no hot lunch served, fruit and vegetable bar is available  March 4th..................Mardi Gras at LCT- wear purple, gold, green Mar. 5th.....................Ash Wednesday, Lent begins Mar. 15th..................... [|SHAMROCK], 5:30 p.m. Mar. 19th.....................Class Mass Apr. 12th-21st..............Spring Break