Update March 11th

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Hello Wonderful Families,
The ILCS Spelling Bee will take place this Thursday, March 14th.  Congratulations to our representative Ames and our alternate Liam!  Great job boys!!
Our new AR goals have been set.  You can check your student’s progress by using the Renaissance link on the left of this blog.

Conferences are optional this trimester.  If a conference is required you have been notified and conferences are scheduled for next week.  All other report cards will be published on the Illuminate Parent Portal this Friday, March 15th.
This coming week will be Spirit Week.  If your student chooses not to participate in the daily theme, then they must follow the Dress for Success Policy.  The themes for each day are as follows:
  • Monday 3/11- Past and Future Day
  • Tuesday 3/12- Teacher Tuesday (dress up as your favorite teacher)
  • Wednesday 3/13- Sports Day
  • Thursday 3/14- Music Day (dress as your favorite musician or anything music related)
  • Friday 3/15- PJ Day

There will be NO SCHOOL Monday, March 18th- Monday April 1st for Spring Break. School will return on Tuesday, April 2nd. Please enjoy this time with your families.
Our LEGOland fieldtrip will be Friday April 5th.  
  • As stated before, siblings are not allowed to attend this trip.  If you choose to pull your other ILCS students out of school to attend this trip with us, please know that you are jeopardizing this trip for future 2nd graders in the years to come.
  • If you are attending the trip, as a chaperone or a parent, your child MUST ride with you.  The only people allowed on the bus are teachers and those students that will not have a parent in attendance.
  • You are more than welcome to carpool with other parents and their students, but NO students are allowed to ride in a car if their own parent/guardian is not present.
Just a few updates for the coming week:
This week in Math:
Topic 12
  • Estimating Length
  • Measure within inches
  • Inches, feet, and yards
  • Measure length using different customary units
  • Measure with centimeters



This week in Language Arts:
Reading:  Reasons to support text, use text features, use text features to locate facts in text, explain how authors support specific ideas.use details and examples to talk about text purpose
Grammar: subject and verb agreement
Spelling: carefully, colorful, peaceful, finally, editor, reader, sailor, waiter, foolish, selfish
Vocabulary:
  • Area: a piece of ground or space
  • Benefit: to be useful or helpful
  • Soon: in a short time
  • Shrugged: raise shoulders slightly
  • Several: more than two, but not many
Writing: Opinion Writing
  • Revise reasons
  • Consider opposing audience and opposing opinions
  • Support reasons with examples
  • Paragraphs with topic and concluding sentences
This week in Leadership and Science:
Leadership: Leader in Me Habit 1: Be Proactive
Science: What Plants Need
Homework: .  Find the Evidence will go home on Monday and is due back on Friday.  Math sheets and reading must be completed nightly.

Looking forward to another great week!
Alison

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