Important Dates: Thursday, October 18th - Library Thursday, October 18th - P-T conferences - Cant wait to meet with you all! Friday, Oct. 19th - Mrs. McGill's last day before Maternity Leave Wednesday, October 24th - Early Dismissal @ 1:00 Friday, October 26th - No School Wednesday, October 31st - Storybook Parade - Parents are welcome to help Sailors get into their costumes at 12:45. The parade will begin at 1:15. The party will begin around 1:45 and will end at 2:15. You are welcome to take your child home after the party. Wonders - soft c, soft g Spelling words - place, barge, trace, ice, bulge, badge, space, range, mice, cage, mule, huge, out, wash, saw Challenge words - escape, buried, habitat, peeks, straight, journey, nature, restless, spies, almost Reading - Wonders Unit 2, Week 3 On Monday they'll be taking their ELA word inventory assessments to show what words they can read independently. Our groups are going swimmingly. Ask your child what their group's name is, they created some great ones! Thank you so much for helping your child read with you for 20 minutes a night! :) Math - We are having fun with sums. Last week we tried lots of different strategies to help us come up with sums to our addends. They are learning all the best strategies for adding and subtracting. For example, doubles, near doubles, making ten, number lines, etc. I love giving them all the strategies to help them find the sum or difference of any problem! Writing - We took our Trimester 1 writing assessment on Friday. This is a chance to write independently about a time when something special happened to them. You'll get to see what they came up with all on their own at their conference. Science - We're continuing our study of ecosystems. We'll be focusing on different habitat explorations. We're working on oceans, arctic and rain forests this week! |
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Wendy Davis
10/15/2018 04:24:55 am
Looking forward to meeting with you Thursday! Grace is just a doll!!!
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