Week of September 3-7

Our first 5 day week is over! Time flies when we have fun!

Important Reminders:

• No school Monday 9/3
• If you haven't joined our new homeroom app, please do it's a great way to see what your kids are doing in class!
• If you have not sent in a family picture (4X6) frame yet, please do
• You child is coming home with a reading log for September. Please keep it all month and initial each day that they read. It will be due back on October 1st. If you fill all 20 slots before then, they can bring it back early.
• Bring Ziplock "Me Bag" Back to school on Wednesday (filled with 3 things about them)

Reading/English:

• This week we will focusing on reading strategies while reading high interest books. I will be modeling how to fill out organizers to help with reading. Some of the strategies we will talk about are: inferring, characterization, finding details, and cause and effect.
• We also will be starting our first writing activity. Students will be bringing home a note and bag. Please fill the bag with 3 things that represent them. In class, we will learn how to formulate good paragraphs while writing about our items. 

Spelling:

• We will start the following week.

Social Science:

• We have already started learning about directions. We will have our first directions quiz Friday, September 7. A study guide will go home today to help them prepare. 

Math (For families in my math class only):

• We are starting our first lesson in unit 1. We will focus all about addition and subtraction strategies, such as doubles, doubles plus one, etc. You will see some sheets of homework come home to help reinforce this.