IMPORTANT DATES:
• 9/21~ Early Release Day~ please see form going home today.
• 9/23~ MAP testing & Last day to order PTO T-shirts
• 10/5~ Walk to School Day. Information will go home soon.
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EMGames Online: Your child brought home a card with directions how to access Every Day Mathematics games from any computer with internet access. I hope you have had the chance to visit this site! Remember, you can go to the public library for internet access if you do not have it at home.
Free and Reduced Lunch: ATTENTION ALL PARENTS!!
If you haven’t already done so, please fill-out and submit a free and reduced lunch form. You can put it in a sealed envelope and put it to the attention of Dawn Dame, our cafeteria manager. You may benefit from this program and get your child(ren)’s lunch FREE OR REDUCED. The form is EASY to fill-out and you may be surprised how easy it is to qualify. You only need one form per family/household. Please list all children in your care on the form. Please let me know if you would like a form, or you can come by the school to pick one up.
REMINDERS:
Library day is FRIDAY!
PTO news: Look over the information about our new SCRIP Fundraising! It is an easy way to raise money for our school. Thank you for your tremendous participation in our BOX TOP BLITZ! Thank you for sending these and other labels in. Our PTO is so supportive of our school!
Homework:
1. This week’s high frequency words are: with, jump, but, as, came, got, have, make, what, of Please work on reading them at first sight.
If your child can easily recognize them for reading, begin practicing the spelling of these words.
2. READING: Beginning today, your child is bringing home four 100 Book Challenge books in a special book bag. As always, please read with your child for 15 minutes, with a timer. We are working on building up the amount of time that the children can read independently. These 100 Book Challenge books should be easy for your child to read. You may read personal books or library books for the rest of the 15 minutes.
3. Math homework will go home on Tuesday and Thursday of this week!
Language Arts: We will continue to work on letter sounds, especially short vowel sounds, & letter formation. We are working on spelling words, writing sentences with spacing between words, and including periods at the end of sentences. We are learning how to brainstorm for ideas and organize our thoughts for writing. We are focusing on using our fingers to point to the words as we read, using the pictures for clues, and “getting our mouths ready” as we face unknown words. We are reading stories (fiction) and reading for information (non-fiction).
Math: We’re working on number formation, counting by 2’s, 5’s, and 10’s, and adding by counting up. We’ll be using a number line and other strategies to solve number stories with adding and subtracting. We are playing Every Day Math games online, so you will know how to play them at home!
Science: We will continue to study the seasons and months of the year. We’re learning about how the weather changes with the seasons, and we’ll learn about the sun and the moon.
Social Studies: We will learn more about our country and our constitution.
