Newsletter Updates for the Week of September 12th

DATES TO REMEMBER:

-Tuesday, September 13th—K-2 Picture Day

-Monday, September 19th—Delayed Start (10:00)

-Friday, September 23rd—Mobile Dentist

STUDENT OF THE WEEK: 

Our student of the week is Riley. Riley enjoys riding her bike and playing outside. Her favorite food is pizza and she enjoys reading Nursery Rhymes.   Some of Riley’s goals include playing soccer this Fall and becoming an athlete when she gets older—she loves to run!  Congratulations to Riley on being our Student of the Week!

PICTURE DAY:

Our picture day is tomorrow—Tuesday, September 13th.  ALL students will be photographed for the yearbook and library cards. If you’d like to purchase pictures, please be sure to send in your payment and completed envelope by tomorrow morning.  Don’t forget your SMILE!

THANK YOU: 

I just wanted to say a big ‘thank you’ to all of you for being so generous in providing supplies for our classroom. It is great to have the cupboards stocked and ready for a great year of learning and fun!  Thank you!!

PERMISSION TO PHOTOGRAPH:

The office has asked us to check with parents regarding photographing students.  We like to document learning and fun throughout the year and photos of students will often be on the school’s website and/or Facebook page. If you do NOT want your child photographed please let me know and I’ll make sure the office is notified.

READING:

This week our reading lessons will focus on the letters I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, & R. We will also introduce the sightword—can. We will continue to work on recognizing, naming, and writing our letters during literacy stations. The students have learned a couple of fun learning apps on their ipads and are enjoying starfall.com on the computer each day. They are also doing a wonderful job of reading from their book boxes during ‘read-to-self' time after lunch. This week we will introduce Eagle Eye who reminds us to look at the pictures for clues to figure out the words while we are reading.

WRITING: 

We will continue our unit on Speaking & Listening as we talk about ‘things we know and can do.’  We will also learn about question words and practice using them—who, what, when, where, why, & how, as well as prepositional phrases (positional words) - on, under, between, over, etc.  We will complete a journal page about butterflies as we practice adding colors and details.

MATH:

We will be learning how to identify and write the numbers 3, 4, & 5.  We will also practice counting items using one-to-one correspondence and work on building numbers using different manipulatives. We will create and interpret data with graphs this week; we will graph our birthdays and our ages.

SCIENCE/SOCIAL STUDIES: 

This week we will continue to discuss the difference between past, present, and future events. We are patiently waiting for our butterfly to emerge so that we can release it to migrate to Mexico—the students have been so excited to watch this process! This week we will also begin our study of apples; we will be reading several books related to apples and incorporate apples into our Math & Science lessons throughout the week.