April 15, 2009 

Dear Parents,

          We started our 5th unit of inquiry last week.  The title of this unit is Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.  The students will learn that weather patterns affect the environment and people's lives.  
It is an inquiry into:
   *the different types of weather
   *how weather works
   *weather affects people's lives
           during this unit, students will keep a weather journal.  They will learn vocabulary relating to types of weather and instruments used to measure the weather.  They will learn about different types of weather and natural disasters. They will also describe and illustrate the steps of the water cycle

          In math, we are working in the Everyday Math Journal 2. We will be working on fractions, capacity, and subtraction with regrouping, addition with regrouping, perimeter, and area.
          If you haven’t sent the permission slip to The Weather Museum, please do so ASAP.   Since the museum is so small, we only need one chaperone. Thank you to Ethan Gibson’s mom for volunteering to go with us!

Important Dates:

April 14^th-Khambrel Marshall Meteorologist @8:15 am

April 15^th-Student-Led Conferences

April 23^rd-VIPS luncheon

April 21^th-Weather Museum (Bring a sack lunch)

May 1^st-Under the Sea Performance @ 8:30 am

May 7^th-Field Day (Please send $6.00 for t-shirt and volunteer to help!)

May 8^th-Dance of Asia America Performance @8:30am

May 22^nd-Second Grade Award Ceremony

Thank you,

Mrs. Isgur