September 8-11th

The first week of school went by amazingly fast. We spent most of the week getting to know each other and building classroom community. Ask your child if they can name everyone in the class.

In social studies this week we began making classroom rules, worked on our Hopes and Dreams, and started work on our bus safety curriculum.

In writing this week we began Writers Workshop. Students wrote about various topics and we learned about two strategies for generating personal narrative writing ideas. Ask your child to tell you about the two strategies.

In language arts we began working on our Daily 5. The first component of the Daily 5 is Read to Self. We have been building our stamina and are up to nine minutes of Read to Self. Have your child describe what if looks like in the classroom during Read to Self.

In math we were able to play a couple of math games: Kryptos and Funny Numbers. Ask your child to play these games with you, they have gotten really good!!

The planners should be signed this weekend and brought back on Monday. Have a great weekend. I have really enjoyed the class this week and am looking forward to a GREAT year.