September 19-23

 Hello families!

I am sending out our newsletter 2 days early, as I will be out of town Thursday and Friday.  

What We're Learning:

Moral Focus: We are continuing work on Wisdom.  We have talked about what showing wisdom looks like at home and at school.  We are also doing Leader In Me.   We are talking about how to have a safe learning environment.  

Reading:  We are making Wonderings with our text.  Students are practicing questioning why something is happening.  This is helping them ask and answer questions about a text.  Once we make a "wonder" we then find our answer and practicing answering our own questions.

Phonics: We have been working on 2 new letters this week: Ll and Bb.  We make our posters together by coming up with several words that start with the letter we are practicing.

Writing:  Students are practicing writing sentences.  Right now it is a guided practice where we do it together.  They are producing amazing work!  We are writing sentences using our sight words and tapping out the sounds we hear in a word and writing that sound down.  Students are also practicing using our letter posters to figure out how to spell a word.

Math: We are continuing to identify and make patterns.  We are counting to 20, counting by 10s to 100 and counting by 5s to 100.  We have also starting talking about place value!

Important Information:  

This Friday is our Fun Run.  Families are allowed to visit the school and cheer on their children for that hour of fun!  Cheer extra loud for me, since I won't be there.

Picture Retake/Make up Day is September 28.  If you wish to have your child retake their picture, please bring back the previous picture.

We have our class field trip coming up on October 24th.  Please have all permission slips and money turned in by September 30th.

Please make sure to have extra clothes in your child's backpack just in case they have an accident.

Thank you all for your support and teamwork to make this year a successful year!