Text Box: School Guidelines: Be Respectful Be Responsible Be Ready We read the story Lets Talk About Being Bullied. We discussed many of the ideas presented in the story. We also made a poster showing how we will be respectful to each other and NOT bully others. Ask your child to tell you something he or she can do if he or she feels they are being bullied. WRITING: This week we used the writing process to make a class book about things we Text Box: like to do. Each day we worked on a different step in the writing process. We did prewriting, drafting, responding and revising, proofreading, and publishing. Students did a fantastic job asking each other questions that would help their classmates add more information to their sentences. READING: Focus of the Week: High-Frequency Words: and, oh, yes, in Predicting Outcomes Short vowel ‘a’ We read the story Sam and the Bag from our reading Text Box: series. We also learned about some of the activities we might do when our reading centers start in October. We drew and labeled the parts of a cat, drew the setting for the story Sam and the Bag and retold the story to a partner. We also practiced sequencing the life-cycle of a butterfly, learned how to write about the listening center, put together and read the mini-book Tad Cat Ran, and practiced our spelling words using rainbow spelling. SPELLING PRACTICE IDEA Have your child make letters out of clay or playdough to spell the spelling words. Text Box: MATH: We are learning how to use Touch Math . For more information on Touch Math you can visit their web site. www.touchmath.com We are learning how to complete ADD. ADD, Arithmetic Developed Daily, contains mixed skills Text Box: and problem-solving challenges. We have been practicing writing our numbers, making tallies, and number order in our math journals. We did a fun lesson on thermometers and temperature! We are almost finished with Unit One in our math journals.

Calendar Change

No School - September 29, 2006

Teacher Work Day

 

September 29 is a non-school day.

Teachers will be working on:

Education Reform

School Improvement Plans

Student Learning Plans

Thank you for “running the bases” at Open House!