Here's What's Coming Up Next Week

• Kindergarten registration takes place all next week.
• We will have our Book Binge on Monday, March 3rd.
• Spring Conferences are Thursday, March 6th. 
• Math-a-Thon ends on Friday, March 7th.
• School will release at 11:50 am on Friday, March 7th. 

Book Binge
     On Monday, we'll have a Book Binge to celebrate earning 30 compliments from other Crestwood adults!  Students should bring up to ten books they'd like to donate, and we'll take turns choosing new books for each of us to take home.

Writer's Workshop
     We've been writing Informational Text in Writer's Workshop.  First, we spent time researching our topic using several sources.  We took notes and organized our information into several chapters. Then, we created Google Presentations and are currently drafting our chapter books using this program.

Reader's Workshop
     We spent some time close reading Where the Wild Geese Go.  Close reading involves reading a text multiple times for very specific purposes.  Students read the passage to harvest new words, to grasp the author's purpose, and to understand the text structure.  They practiced writing about their reading while paraphrasing and citing textual evidence.

Math
     In Math this week, we finished up our practice with factors and multiples.  We classified numbers as prime or composite and also worked with square roots and square numbers.  On Wednesday, we started exploring geometry and reviewed segments, lines, and angles.