I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend!  We have so much to do this week!

 

In reading, we will focus on making inferences and comparing for comprehension.  We will be hitting this skill hard in small reading groups with our story, "Living Lights".  Don't forget, they will bring home their book to read on Thursday AND it can count for their reading log!  In phonics and spelling, we will focus on words with digraphs.  We will also be reviewing contractions. 

 

We will continue working with verbs in grammar and writing.  We will also continue working with descriptive words while we write our scary stories!  Students are SUPER excited about writing their stories.  Last week, we reviewed using descriptive words to make our writing better and read some short stories to prove the point.  We then contributed to a shared writing to help give us examples.  Students can choose between writing a scary or  funny story but still work on using the writer's craft of details.

 

Students did FANTASTIC on their Chapter 2 test in math.  We will now continue with Chapter 3: Subtraction up to 1,000.  We will be reviewing what they learned about subtraction in 1st grade and start the chapter with subtracting without regrouping.  We will then move on to regrouping in the tens and ones.  We will also work on reinforcing the skill of using addition to double check our answer when subtracting.  We will focus on +3 for our fast fact skill!

 

We are now starting our Social Studies unit on Geography.  We will start with map reading skills and move to learning our continents!  We will touch base a little each day with our skills then focus on our main activities on Friday!

 

Important information:

*PLEASE RETURN the salsa fundraiser envelopes if you haven't done so!  They were due Friday!

 

*Conferences this Thursday!  I will send home reminders!

 

*Book orders due this week!

 

*Chipotle Dine to Donate Night will be on the 22nd!  More information will be sent home!

 

*Halloween Party papers will go out this week!  Students are permitted to dress up BUT NO MASKS, BLOOD, WEAPONS, MAKE UP, and NO scary costumes are permitted.  We need to keep in mind that we have very young children in the school so all costumes need to be kept at a G rating! :)  Students will change into their costumes BEFORE the party.  Please do not send students to school in their costumes.  They tend to get uncomfortable and hot.  Parking!!!  Since the building of our new school is starting this week- parking is very limited!  FOR THE DAY OF THE PARTY- no parking will be allowed on the playground.  We do have permission for parents to park at the Freshman School.

 

*Have a great week! :)