I hope everyone is off to a great start enjoying their long holiday weekend!
Some important reminders: Mail went home on Friday, so please remember to go through your child's mail with them each Tuesday and Friday. An Enrollment Verification Form was included in the mail, and this form needs to be reviewed and returned back by September 13th. Graded work is also sent home regularly. You may also check SIS for your child's grades in all subjects except for reading.
A few students had missing homework this week. If your child does not turn in an assignment that is graded for points, they have one week to turn it in to still receive partial credit. Extra copies are always available if something has been lost. I record what assignments are missing on the Class Dojo website. If you have not yet logged into the Class Dojo to begin receiving your weekly reports, I encourage you to do so. Next week, I will distribute information to the children so they can create their student logins for Dojo as well. They are excited to see how many positive points they have been earning!
In math this week, we have continued our study of place value. Our focus has been on comparing the size of numbers and writing a list of numbers in order from the least to greatest, or greatest to least. We are also practicing rounding numbers to a given place value. Next week, we will review Chapters 1 and 2 and have a test on Thursday.
The children have added more "seed stories" to their writing notebooks. Ask your child to explain to you the difference between a "seed story" and a "watermelon" story. We have also looked at examples of personal narratives from published authors. Students are re-reading their ideas and looking to add in specific details and make sure they are telling their narratives in chronological order. Next week, they will choose one of their ideas to take through the writing process.
As we wrap up our unit on maps and globes in social studies, we have started to focus in on the study of Missouri. The first chapter in our Missouri text book covers the geography of our state. The children will be learning about the five regions of Missouri, as well as the importance of our rivers and natural resources. Don't forget the This Hand is My Land project is due Tuesday.
Students are continuing to practice making meaningful text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections. Guided reading groups are up and running and students are doing a nice job participating in their groups. We have also begun to explore strategies good readers use to clarify unknown words and ideas in books, such as backing up to re-read, searching for context clues, and breaking words into their parts.
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