EXPO is Approaching!

This is the weather forecast board we created.  These pictures were taken a few weeks ago.

Hello!  I am excited to start building an anemometer (wind meter) with students this week. Here's the update for everything else that is happening:

EXPO is Approaching!
Our Spring Expo is Thursday, March 30 from 5-7pm.  These are the grade level presentation times:
5:00 - 5:30 Grades K, 3, & 6 
5:45 - 6:15 Grades 1, 4, & 7 
6:30 - 7:00 Grades 2, 5, & 8 

The Used Book Sale will be open in the MPR beginning at 4:30pm and will continue throughout the event.

Report Cards Went Home Today
Report cards and Personal Learning Plans went home today.  They are in a 9 x 12 yellow envelope.  The envelope needs to be signed and returned to school tomorrow.  You keep the report card, but return the envelope to me.

March is Reading Month Is Here!
As I wrote last week, this year for March is Reading Month (MIRM) we will be doing some key community-building literacy events interspersed throughout the month. The first is the Read It Forward program, where we attempt to get all students and staff at A2 STEAM to read the same book. This year we are reading The Lorax by Dr. Suess.

The second big event is the annual Used Book Sale, happening on Thursday, March 30th from 4:30-7:00pm in conjunction with the Expo.  All items will cost just 50 cents and all proceeds will go toward boosting the Media Center program at A2 STEAM.  Used book collection will take place from March 1st - March 24th.  If you have books at your house that you can donate, please leave in the marked area in front of the A2 STEAM library.  Lastly, if you have cardboard boxes, around the size of a banker's box, those would help Ms. Reader with sorting the donated books.

With regards to the Used Book Sale, please consider volunteering throughout the month of March at a time convenient to you to sort books, set up the event, handle money for a ½ slot during the sale, or clean up after the sale.  If you are interested in volunteering, please follow this link.  Thank you in advance for your contributions!

Lastly, students have a chance to “get caught” reading. Simply take a picture of your child reading their favorite book and email it to Ms. Reader (reader@aaps.k12.mi.us) to be added to our community Get Caught Reading Wall.

Let’s get ready to READ A2 STEAM!!

Curriculum Overview
PBL (Project Based Learning) Weather Project - This week we are learning about seasons and how the tilt of the earth creates the seasons and makes our part of the earth warmer and colder.  We will also begin construction on an anemometer, an instrument for measuring wind. 

Math - We will be learning about inches and centimeters and practice measuring with both.  We will need to measure as we create our anemometer (wind meter).  We will also learn more about the bar graphs, line graphs, and tally charts that have been helping us track the weather.

Literacy - We are reading fiction books where weather causes problems for the characters, ask your students about Rain!.  We are reviewing what characters are, and what a book’s setting is.  We will also be reading non-fiction books to help us learn about weather and meteorologists.

Writing - We are recording what happened in our evaporation experiment and revising our other writing about weather.

Word Study - After noticing the th blend in words like THunder and weaTHer students are studying the th, ch, and sh blends.