September 20th

We enjoyed our speaker last week who introduced us to her amazing bird and interesting snake!

Tomorrow is The International Day of Peace. We will have a special Town Meeting to honor this day and share our thoughts. You are welcome to attend.

Today you should receive the manila envelope for you to view/keep the graded assignments. Please remember to return the envelope tomorrow with your signature. As a parent and teacher, I always want my children to receive the highest grade. However, the more important issue is...did my child do their personal best? When you review the comprehension quiz, please emphasize with your child the importance of reading the passage, the questions, and then after checking their best choice to go back and check their work again. I recently started teaching the children test taking skills. The focus at this point is trying to narrow their guess on a multiple choice quiz to two answers and then picking the best out of the two. We will learn more strategies throughout the year.

The Collection Vocabulary words for the following two weeks are:
interrupted, continuation, commences, straining, performers, crackle, scribbling, attributes, dappled, amazingly, tamales, pounces, alter, rope, drifts

The Wordly Wise Vocabulary words for the following two weeks are:
ambition, auction, coast, current, frail, intelligent, novel, resident, starve, volunteer

We are writing personal narrative stories this week. Our focus will be on strengthening our stories by adding details.

Science : We are continuing to explore The Scientific Method.
Social Studies :We are learning about Florida's Environment.

Math: We are working to review and solve "What's My Rule? problems, using parts-and-total diagrams to help solve parts-and-total number stories, and changing diagrams to help solve number stories.

How did your child enjoy www.spellingcity.com? Did you get a chance to check out www.bookadventure.com? Let me know what you think of these sites.

Conference Day is next week: I will send a reminder memo to you with the time you signed up.

Wishing you all a wonderful week!