Week of September 24-28

 

Wow! School is quickly flying by and this weekend marks the official start of Fall!

 Important:
Please continue to sign your child's assignment books.
Wednesday is Johnny Appleseed Day-please have your child bring in a peeled, cored, and sliced apple for our homemade apple sauce!
Thank you to the parents who have sent things in for our celebration on Wednesday, it is very much appreciated!
Friday is early Dismissal! If you would like to donate to the classroom treasure chest, that would be very much appreciated!

Math
In Math this week, we have finished  Chapter 1 and will be moving onto chapter 2. Your child will receive a new chapter 2 study packet that will stay in his/her Math pocket. Please be reviewing nightly with your child.On Tuesday we will have a graded review over lessons 1 and 2 (Comparing and ordering numbers). On Friday we will be having another graded review over lessons 4 and 5 only (Rounding to the tens and hundreds place). 

Spelling
We will be on List 5 this week. The Pretest is on Monday and the final test will be on Friday. If your child gets 0,1, or 2 wrong on the pretest they will have 2 challenge activities and the cursive sheet, they have the option to take the test on Friday. If they get more than 2 words wrong, they will have the regular work. (Cursive sheet and two assigned activities) The homework is due on Thursday.

Reading
On Tuesday, students will be tested on the current story we are reading The Lost and Found which is in their volume 1 reading book here at school.  This is an open book test.  Students can take this book home at any time and return it to school the next day.  They also have a vocab test on this selection on Thursday over the words in the story (A study guide of the words will be sent home Friday 9-21-12).  We will continue working on sequencing and summarizing. 

English
We will take the chapter 1 English test on Monday 9-24-12. The study guide went home and we have been reviewing a lot in class. Please continue to work with your child at home doing the practice tests at the end of the chapter. On Wednesday we will be starting Chapter 2-Nouns.

Social Studies
We are going to start Social Studies again! This will be every couple days, in between Science. We will be starting with Continents and Oceans. There will be a quick graded review on Thursday.

Science
In Science we will continue with Chapter 9 Water Cycle. We will be working on Lesson 3 next week. The Chapter 9 test will be the following week. 

Have a WONDERFUL Weekend!