Important Dates & Reminders

• March 2: Early Release
• March 3: No School for Students
• March 8: Family Market
• March 8: Interim Reports in Wednesday Folders 

Make sure your child comes to school with one easy and healthy snack and water bottle every day.

Check out our updated attendance form! Along with reporting an all day absence, you can now report a late arrival or an early dismissal, https://timberlanees.fcps.edu/about/attendance-form.

Language Arts

What We Learned This Past Month:

Students learned about open and closed syllables:

• When a syllable ends with a consonant, the vowel sound is usually short
• When a syllable ends with a vowel, the vowel sound is usually long
• Every syllable has one vowel sound
• Students learned about long vowel patterns in words 
• When a syllable or word ends with vowel, consonant, e, the first vowel is long and the e is silent
• We can spell the long vowel sound with an e that follows one consonant

What We Will Be Learning Next Month:

• We will learn how to talk about books with our classmates
• We will discuss how characters in our story change over time
• We will begin our research unit 
  • We can write to inform and change the mind of readers
  • Researchers learn and gather information on a topic can help change the understanding of others
  • Researchers use observation to learn new information and improve our current

Math

What We Learned This Past Month

• How to count forward orally by ones, twos, fives, and tens to determine the total number of objects to 110

• We learned how to group a collection of up to 110 objects into tens and ones and write the corresponding numeral to develop an understanding of place value
• Students continued practicing addition and subtraction within 10 in the third unit of addition and subtraction

What We Will Be Learning Next Month: 

• Students will learn how to create and say a fair share within a group or object 
• Students will be be able to represent halves and fourths using models 
• We will collect, organize, and represent various forms of data using tables, picture graphs, and object graphs 
• Students will learn how to read and interpret data displayed in tables, picture graphs, and object graphs

Science

What We Learned Last Month:

• Students learned that living things have basic needs (energy and matter) and functional parts that allow them to survive
• Students will learn that living things respond to factors in their environment, including weather and change of seasons

What We Will Be Learning Next Month: 

• We will learn about plants’ and animals’ responses to the change in seasons 
• Students will learn about animal homes and body coverings 
• We will learn about plant parts and the basic needs of plants
• We will learn about the relationship between the sun and Earth that can be observed through patterns in nature. The sun is the primary source of energy providing light and warmth for Earth
• We will learn that human actions can affect the world around us. Natural resources can be used responsibly through conservation

Social Studies

What We Learned This Past Month:

• We described and made connections to the impacts of influential Virginians who helped form a new nation
• Students learned about people and events associated with
  • George Washington Day (Presidents' Day)
  • Juneteenth
  • Independence Day

What We Will Be Learning Next Month:

• We will learn about the relationship between money and savings 

• Students will understand that geographical features, such as landforms and location, affect how people live