This Wednesday, September 13th is an Early Release Day with a 1:40 dismissal. Please make sure your child knows how they are going home that day in case it is different from their normal dismissal plans.
Our class visits the school library on Tuesdays. Please have your child bring their books back to school on this day.
If you send money to school with your child for their lunch account, please place the money in an envelope with your child's name on it. This helps to make sure money is not accidentally lost and is allocated to the proper account. Thank you!
I am incredibly excited to report that our class's Donor's Choose Project was fully funded! I am filled with gratitude to those who supported the children in our class by donating to the project. Our new flexible seating items, including bean bag chairs, wobble stools, cushions, and cafe stools should arrive in the next few weeks. Stay tuned for pictures when the items arrive!
Class Updates:
In math, the students spent last week continuing to work on the addition part of Chapter 1. They learned strategies for adding three numbers and also practiced the steps to solving word problems with addition. This coming week, we will learn about subtraction strategies and cover lessons 7-10.
Reading groups got off to a great start this week! I am thrilled about the level of participation in our groups and how hard the students are working. Students are beginning to work on making text-to-self and text-to-text connections to the books they are reading. Next week, we will focus on word solving strategies and on monitoring our reading to increase the number of self-corrections we make.
In writing, the students have started the brainstorming stage of our personal narrative unit. They are working on sketching and listing their ideas for topics. We have learned to begin with big "watermelon" topics and work on scaling them down to small, focused "seed stories". We also finished our "Best Part of Me" projects. They turned out beautifully!
After two weeks of learning several ways to practice spelling words and reviewing some key high frequency words, we will begin spelling groups next week. You should have received an email from me regarding which day of the week your child will receive their words and have their tests.
The communities the students created in social studies are finished and look fantastic! Each group included many places people live, work, play, and solve problems. I loved to see the creativity of the children. Each community was unique! Last week we continued our study with the first half of Lesson 2, which covers comparing and contrasting urban, rural, and suburban communities. The students worked in partners to read a scholastic news article about our topic, and we started making a graphic organizer to represent what we would see in each type of community. We will finish up lesson 2 this week and then get ready to start our first science unit.
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