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Sight words: about, any, been, down

Writing Workshop Discovering, studying, and writing poetry

Handwriting Without Tears -Reviewing capital and lowercase letters

MMMaaattthhh Investigations Unit 7

1.1 What Comes Next? 1.2 Clapping Patterns

1.3 What Color Will the 12th Cube Be? 1.4 Break a Train 1.5 Make a Train

1.6 What Comes Here? 1.7 What’s the Same? What’s Different?

1.8 Assessment: Make a Repeating Pattern

We are collecting toilet paper tubes for a rainforest “craftivity.” If you come by empty toilet paper tubes

please send them into class. Thanks!

Mark your calendars! Friday, April 6 and Monday, April 9th are school holidays. We will not have

school on these days.

Mrs. Scott’s Official Newsletter for the Week of March 26, 2012

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Honesty

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What is a rainforest?

Where are the rainforest in the world?

Learning about the four layers of the rainforest: forest floor, understory, canopy,

emergent

Discovering the different animals in each layer of the rainforest.