March+News

=Check out the news in Room 102. We learn many new things each day. Our daily news reporters will tell the story of what we are learning.=

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=__Monday, March 1st:__ Happy Read Across America! Today was the first day of a week long celebration of reading at our school. We read in the halls with the whole school. It was so cool! Even the nurse was reading!! Mrs. Hippeli gave our class a present....it was one of Dr. Seuss' books called, __Oh the Thinks You Can Think__. She also gave us the stuffed animal character to go along with the book. He is our class mascot. We take turns reading with him! Stay tuned for the fun and exciting things we do tomorrow to celebrate reading!=

__Wednesday, March 3rd__:
==Today we celebrated Read Across America with a mystery guest reader, and guess who it was? Our fifth grade buddy teacher, Mrs. Billman. She read, __The Cat in the Hat comes Back__ by Dr. Seuss. We also had fun playing math relays to practice double digit subtraction with trading. It was fun! We had a tie for first and second place!==

==__Thursday, March 4th__ We are learning how to multiply in math class. We love it! We think it's easy because it's just repeated addition and we already know how to add. We also learned about arrays to help us solve math problems that are multiplying. We celebrated Read Across America by meeting with our fifth grade buddies and illustrating an oath (promise) that we will keep on reading! Here is a picture of our reading oath...==
 * [[image:Oath.JPG width="478" height="606" caption="Reader's Oath"]] ||
 * Reader's Oath ||

=__Wednesday, March 10th:__= ==Today we performed our show, //To Teach The World To Sing//, for our whole school! We were very nervous, but Mrs. Hippeli said we all did a great job, and the audience loved us. we could tell because they laughed and clapped a lot. In the show, we sing songs in four different languages: French, Japanese, Spanish and English. Tomorrow night we will perform for our families at night. We are excited!==

= = =__Friday, March 12th:__=

= = ====**It is the day after our big show, and boy, it was a great show. We had a big crowd and everyone did a fabulous job! Our second grades watched a video called, Fern Gully, as a reward for all of our hard work. It is a good movie. You should watch it for Earth Day!**====

= = =__Thursday, March 25th:__=

=We are learning about plural nouns. Did you know that there are some words that you have to change the whole word to make it plural? We call these, irregular plural nouns...like mouse - mice woman - women, man - men, child - children. In math class we are working on fractions, and learning how to divide shapes equally. We like working with fractions!=

=**__Tuesday, March 30th:__**= =Today we read a good math story about fractions called, Fraction Action. We liked it so much that we decided to create our own Fraction Action books. We used fractions to fold our paper and make our books. It was so much fun! We also liked playing the pizza fraction game our good friends from China showed us. Thank you penpals= = = = =