We had a busy week last week! Thank you to everyone who made it to open house on Thursday, if you missed it, I will be sending home some paperwork in your child's Tuesday folder so that you can have an idea what we talked about. Also, a big thank you to everyone who came to the Ice Cream Social!
In reading this week we will be reading a story called Scaredy Squirrel, and discussing how we can make changes happen. We will be focusing on the skills of inferring (using our background knowledge and what we read to figure something out), drawing conclusions, and prefixes meaning "not."
In writing/grammar this week we will be finishing our beginning of the year writing samples (students are writing about their favorite place). If we have time, we will write a friendly letter, too!
In math this week we are finishing up chapter one. We will be working still on mental math subtraction strategies. And as I discussed at Open House, the standard algorithm is considered one strategy to use for addition and subtraction. We will end the week working on problem solving and reviewing for the chapter 1 test, which will be given sometime next week. Hopefully I will also get students their Go Math user names and passwords this week, too.
Upcoming Events:
- Thursday: Early Out at noon-lunch will not be served, but the kids can bring a larger snack
- Friday: Spirit day, bring $1 and "Pack the school in purple" for Alzheimer's awareness.
- Friday: 8:30 all school evacuation to the St. John's Lillis center for our evacuation drill. This is just so the kids all know the procedure and where to go if we ever need to evacuate the school.
- Saturday: Saturday Live at Pioneer Park
If you still have any items for the Saturday Live basket, please have them in by Wednesday so we can get our basket put together. Thank you for all that you have sent in so far!
Homework due Friday: math spiral review sheet, reading log
Sounds like a really busy and fun week. Enjoy each day!
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