It was wonderful meeting all of you last Tuesday at Meet the Teacher. If you have not yet done so please fill out and return the paperwork that was in the blue folder you received.
Daily Take-Home Folder
History:
Read and write 2-digit and 3-digit numbers in numerals, words, and as addition of tens and ones.
Count on/back 1, 2, 10, or 20 from a given number
Rename hundreds, tens, and ones
Math workbooks will begin going home on Monday. Nightly math homework usually is done in the workbook.
Our Weekly Blog Post
Please check back every Monday morning for an updated blog post regarding the upcoming week. It will also be sent out in email form.
Daily Take-Home Folder
Please empty the ORANGE take-home folder every day. This folder will be used for nightly homework as well as a place for important forms (school fliers, informational sheets, completed work, etc). The orange folder should come home and be returned daily.
Agenda
Agendas will be filled out every day and sent home with your child to remind them of their homework and special events. Please initial your child’s agenda every night and record the number of minutes read. Student agendas enhance the students’ organizational skills. I check agendas every morning so this is a wonderful tool of communication. Just send me a quick note in the agenda if you have a question or concern.
Agendas will be filled out every day and sent home with your child to remind them of their homework and special events. Please initial your child’s agenda every night and record the number of minutes read. Student agendas enhance the students’ organizational skills. I check agendas every morning so this is a wonderful tool of communication. Just send me a quick note in the agenda if you have a question or concern.
Class Liaison
If you missed the class liaison interest form at Meet the Teacher, please email me if interested.
Afternoon Snack
Due to our early lunch time, we will be having an afternoon snack in the classroom. Please pack a dry snack for your child, that is free from nuts, and does not require utensils.
A glance at our coming week...
History:
History instruction will start strong with our Geography and Spatial Reasoning unit. We will discuss globes, different types of maps, cardinal directions and identifying all 7 continents and 5 oceans. We will use a continents song as an instructional aid that you may be hearing at home!
Science:
We will begin our study of magnets. Students will test what materials are magnetic and nonmagnetic. We will discuss and explore the similarities and differences we observed.
Math: Daily Math Homework Starts Monday
Count, read, and write whole numbers to 1,000 and identify the place value for each digit. Read and write 2-digit and 3-digit numbers in numerals, words, and as addition of tens and ones.
Count on/back 1, 2, 10, or 20 from a given number
Rename hundreds, tens, and ones
Math workbooks will begin going home on Monday. Nightly math homework usually is done in the workbook.
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| The Workbook |
Language Arts:
Grammar:
This week we will review that a noun is a person, place, thing, or idea. When you are out and about this week you could ask your child to point out any nouns that they see. Is it a person? A place? A thing? An idea?
Reading: Daily Reading Homework (20 minutes) Please sign the agenda after your scholar reads aloud to you for 20 minutes.
We will begin our study of Elements of a Story by focusing on characters. Both the internal and external features of a character will be examined. When reading at home with your child, have them think deeper about the character. You could ask them questions like: What words tell about the character? How does the character feel? Does the character do good or bad things? Why does the character do these things? How would the story have changed if the main character were greedy (or brave, impolite, etc.). How did the main character’s behavior (thoughts, actions, etc.) affect the other characters in the story?
Spalding: Daily Spalding Homework (Handwriting Focus) Starts Monday
Students will begin Spalding this first full academic week.
This first week, students will review handwriting formation - starting with clock letters, line letters, and phonograms 1-70. We will focus on handwriting, proper pencil grip, and scholarly position.
Pencil Grip Video Help: Pencil Grip Video
Spalding Handwriting: Handwriting -How to video- Clock Letter Formation
Poem:
Our first poem will be given out next Monday, August 13th.
Writing:
Formal writing instruction will begin next week.
Literature:
Literature this week will revolve around books highlighting virtue. We will begin to introduce how to have a Socratic discussion, emphasizing how we respond to our classmates and how to answer open-ended questions. Our first book for our Literature Studies is The Boxcar Children.
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| Please send The Boxcar Children in by Sept. 9th |
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