Next week we will be following the five steps of the writing process to write a story. We will be choosing a topic, exploring and planning our story and organizing the details to include a beginning, middle and end. We will be concentrating on writing complete sentences and proofreading our story to make corrections and revisions.
In spelling, we will be focusing on sight words. The children will have a pre-test of the week's spelling words on Monday. They need to study the highlighted words, which includes the missed regular spelling words and challenge words during the week for a test on Friday.
Curriculum Night
Thank you for attending Curriculum Night and signing up to help in the classroom. If you were unable to make it to Curriculum Night, I have sent home the information that was handed out last night.
MATH
In math we finished our chapter on adding numbers to 18. We reviewed the strategy adding three numbers and draw a picture to solve a story problem.
Next week on Monday, we will have a chapter test. Our next chapter is on subtraction facts and strategies.
Social Studies
We began our unit on Neighborhoods and Communities. We discussed rules in our classroom and rules in the community. Next week we will be learning about comparing urban, rural and suburban communities and learning about our state and country.
Student of the Week
We will be starting Student of the Week in our classroom. The children are chosen randomly to be our “Student of the Week”. When it is your child's turn please make sure you return the poster to us on Monday. You are invited to be a guest reader in our classroom and read one of your child's favorite books to the class on either Wednesday or Thursday at 2:45 of that week.
If those times don't work with your schedule, please let me know so we can set up a better time for you to read to the class. Each day that your child is student of the week they can bring in a show and tell item to share with our class. We want to learn more about our friends at school!
ANNOUNCEMENTS
September 13th – Magazine Kick-Off
September 13th_ Book Fair 6:30-8:00
September 27th – School Picture Day
September 28th - Early Dismissal at 12:00
October 1st – Reading Logs are Due
October 8th – Columbus Day - No School
