Updates

Dear Families,

Here’s an update on what’s happening in our team:

Reminders:

• Fun Run is Friday, October 16^th! Continue to send in your pledges! 
• Applications for our Student Lighthouse Team came home this week.  If your child is interested, they need to fill out the application and return it by Wednesday, October 14^th.

• Next week is Spirit Week! There will be an orange sheet of daily activities going home this afternoon (Friday). 
• Volunteers are needed to help trace and cut patterns for our Halloween crafts and also to make some math counters for us. Please email me if you're interested!

 ·         In order to make our dismissal run more smoothly, as a school, we are asking that if you are coming to pick up your child from school at the end of the day, that you stay in your car and go through the parent pick up car line.  This is for the safety of all children.  Thank you for your understanding!

Language Arts

Reading Workshop: This week we learned about the different stations students will be visiting during reading workshop.  Students practiced building their stamina at centers as well as transitioning from station to station.  Next week we will be learning reading strategies of how to think before, during and after our reading, as well as practice with retelling fictional stories!

Writing Workshop:   This week we began working on our rough drafts with our paper blogs! We will  follow the writing process to write our first blog.  Please note we are not starting online kid blogs for a couple of weeks.  There is a lot of instruction needed before jumping into our online blogs! Next week, we'll learn about online safety. We'll also  begin to learn the process of commenting and later set up our Avatars on Kidblog. 

Math

 We wrapped up unit 1 this week, testing today!  Tests will come home to sign and return next week.  We will be taking a pre-test and focusing on lessons 2.1 and 2.3 next week if you are following along with Everyday Math Online.  Remember to check online using your child’s password for homelinks! 

Science/Social Studies

This week we learned about communities, rural, suburban and urban. Next week we'll learn more about maps and begin to make our own maps using the compass rose and map keys. We'll also begin to learn about why communities need governments. 

Homework

Students should be practicing math for 10-15 minutes a night and reading for 10-15 minutes a night.  Please complete this in any way that works best for you and your family.

Have a great weekend!!!