September 26, 2015
Student of the Week
Rahul
Special Thanks - to Mike and his family for donating the book A Pet for Fly Guy. The children loved listening to the story.
Reminder - please remember to charge your child's iPad, we will be using them daily.
Reading/Language Arts
Next week we will be reading the story Owen and Mzee by Isabella Hatkoff, Craig Hatkoff and Dr. Paula Kahumbu. This is a true story of two animals a hippo and a tortoise and how they formed a remarkable friendship. Our focus will be: using context clues to determine meaning of words, main purpose of the text and text features.
We will continue to work on nouns.
Math
We will be using strategies to add sums to 20: the commutative property, doubles, and doubles plus 1. Children will demonstrate place value by estimating, counting, and comparing 3-digit numbers.
Social Studies
We will identify ways people can work together in the classroom and community by obeying rules and laws. They will learn that rules and laws can be made and changed by voting.
Homework
Reading - read for 20 minutes and complete Reading Log
*September reading logs will be due next week
Math - practice facts
Spelling - words will be given on Wednesday, practice