Thursday
Night Homework
Most of the children have been doing a nice job of
completing their homework and turning it in on time. Homework is sent home on Thursday and needs
to be returned on Friday or the following Monday.
Important Dates
September
26 – Picture Day
27 – Early Dismissal – 12:00
October
14 – Columbus Day – No School
Our new vocabulary “BIG Words” for next week are: fierce, suspense, clumsy, capture, delightful, and rescue. We introduce new words every other week
and try to use and listen for the old ones throughout our day.
Book Fair/Ice Cream Social
The book fair & ice cream social
was a big success once again. Thank you for your generous donations to
our class for the book fair. We were
able to purchase several books. Thanks!
Luke was our student of the week this past week. He
did a nice job of leading the classroom and making a cool t-shirt.
Math
In math
we have been working on adding and learning how to solve story problems. We cut
out flash cards and practiced different ways to solve a problem, such as using
counters, cubes, or drawing pictures.
This week we worked on “word work” which involves learning different
techniques in order to practice spelling words.
Next week in reading:
Phonics
Skills
l
/th/
sound
l
blending
words that have the cvc (consonant-vowel-consonant)
pattern
Grammar
We
will work on using punctuation in sentences.
Spelling Words
Our spelling words for
the week of September 23rd are:
us, sad,
flag, this, with, that,
thank, me, we, and thinking
Have a good weekend!
