9/16-9/20

Happy Friday everyone!  It’s Friday the 13th, a full moon, AND

a palindrome (9/13/19.) It should be an interesting day! 

I hope everyone has a great, relaxing weekend.

Coming Up Next Week:

Spelling:  The Spelling menu homework will be due on or before Friday, 9/27. 
Some activities will require you to initial in the box on the menu.

Some activities will require work done on a sheet of notebook paper.
Three activities are required. The test will also be on Friday the 27th. 

The test will include 15 words from the student's list (teacher's choice)
and 2 sentences, using any of their 2 words. A letter will be coming

home explaining everything on Monday.

Reading & Language Arts:  Instructions for your child’s “Me Bag” are coming

home today. There will be an extensive writing project and presentation

that goes along with the items they put in their bags. The students are

bringing home a big ziploc bag.

Please send these items to school before Wednesday.

Social Science: We’ve started continents and oceans.  There will be

plenty of fun activities done for this unit which will lead up to a quiz.  

The tentative date for that quiz is 9/25.

Mrs.Mandru's Math Class:  In math, we’ll be working hard on Unit 1

Addition & Subtraction Patterns.  The focus this coming week will be

on the subtraction table.  There will be a short checkpoint quiz on
Tuesday, 9/17.  We’ll then start learning about length and addition of

length.

Important Dates:  

9/26 - Johnny Appleseed’s Birthday

10/2 - Early Dismissal

10/14 - Columbus Day (no school)

Week of September 9-13

It was so great to see you all at Curriculum 

Night on Wednesday; we had a great turnout!!  Thank you so much for

coming out and listening! If you’d like me to send

you a copy of my slide show, please email me!

Coming Up Next Week:

Spelling:  We are taking an extra week off - Spelling will start

the week of 9/16.

Reading & Language Arts:  We’ll continue our focus on various reading skills using
fun literature.  This week our books will be Zoom, Pigsty, the 

Lost and Found, and Recess Queen. The skills studied will be inferencing,

Compare & contrast, and character analysis.

Social Science: There will be a short quiz on directions on 9/12.  A study guide
went home last week.

Mrs.Mandru's Math Class:  In math, we’ll be working hard on Unit 1

Addition & Subtraction Patterns.  The focus this coming week will be

on the addition table.  There will be a short checkpoint quiz on Monday,

9/16.

Important Dates:  

9/26 - Johnny Appleseed’s Birthday

10/2 - Early Dismissal

10/14 Columbus Day