Week of September 14th

Dear parents,
Thank you for being patient with me last week while I was gone.  I heard that Mrs. Klug and Mrs. Headrick did a great job with the kids.  Here's what you can look forward to this week:

Reading: We will be reading a news article on different types of animal habitats.  While reading this article we will be working on finding the main idea and details of what we read.  This will tie into doing our research for the Rural vs. Urban projects we are doing in Social Studies.

Math:  Today we took our first math test of the year.  This covered all of the topics taught in Lessons 1-10.  Testing days we do not have homework in math, so your kids are telling the truth if they tell you they don't have any.  The rest of the week we will be looking at pictographs and place value.  Place value can be a difficult concept to wrap their little minds around so conversations about it at home may help.

Social Studies:  We are doing research for our Rural vs. Urban projects right now.  We started teaching the kids how to pull important facts from books and websites and transfer them to a notecard.  Tomorrow we will finish up the research and possibly even begin building their models.  The models will be done at school with their partners.  The only reason it will need to come home is if they aren't finished by the end of the day on Thursday.  These projects will be presented on Monday and then they will receive a short review guide.  The test will be next Wednesday.

Religion:  We are learning about the 4th commandment.  This is always a lovely one to talk about at home!

Important Dates:

• Friday 9/18 - No School 
• Tuesday Oct. 6th - Zoo Field Trip ( I posted it wrong last time)  We still need a lot of parents to come with us on this trip.  We will be leaving at 1:30 to return to school by 2:00pm.  Please let me know if you can help.  

Book Orders: 

I sent home the first round of book orders last week.  You may return them to school on my desk or order online using our class activation code.  Just go to Scholastic Reading Club  and click on the parents section.  It will ask you for our class activation code.  

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