Monday, September 25th is the last day for the Great American Fundraiser.
Mid-Quarter Reports came home in Friday's green folders. Please sign the bottom of the form and return them to school with your child this week.
Picture Day is Wednesday, September 27th. Picture Day order forms came home in the students' green folders on Friday.
Scholastic Book Orders are due by Wednesday, September 27th.
Be on the lookout for Field Trip Permission Slips that will be coming home on Tuesday for our first field trip to the Butterfly House on October 17th.
Class Updates:
We have started an earth science unit in science. We completed our first Mystery Science Investigation to learn more about rivers. The children developed a model of the earth's surface to determine that rivers start in higher elevations and flow out to the oceans. Students worked in pairs to create their models of mountains and valleys and then made it "rain" to see how the water flowed.
In math, we have finished the lessons from Chapter 1 and will be reviewing on Monday and Tuesday. Our Chapter 1 test will be on Wednesday, the 27th. Review pages from the math book will come home with students to help them study. The next chapter will be about number patterns. We will begin with lessons 1 and 2 on skip counting at the end of the week.
Students are continuing to work hard on their personal narrative stories. They are revising their work to make sure they are writing about a "seed story". They are also picking strategies to hook the reader at the beginning of their stories and strengthen the endings of the stories.
Our reading focus is currently on ways to decode unknown words and also understand the meaning of new vocabulary. Backing up to re-read the sentence, substituting a word that would make sense and then checking the first letter, and looking at all the parts of the word are just a few of the many strategies the children are learning. The students are also using "stop and jots" to record their thinking while they read.
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