September 8, 2017

News for the Week and reminders… Heinen’s will be visiting us to talk about healthy eating habits on Thursday, Sept. 14. We will also have a school wide assembly on Sept. 15. The week of September 11-15 will be the school wide Bee Proud Fundraiser. Information regarding this will be in your child’s Friday Folder. A Scholastic order form was placed in each child’s Friday Folder. This is an excellent way to get good books at affordable prices. Attached to the flier is a letter explaining how to place an order. Please make sure each night your child is showing you their agenda and completed homework before  you sign their agenda. If your child’s homework is to read they should record the book title in the yellow box in their agenda.

ELA This week in Daily 5 we launched Work on Writing. We learned what it looks like and feels like when we are participating in this independently. We also learned the CAFE strategies of: summarize text including sequence of main events and use prior knowledge to connect to text. We have continued our vocabulary study this week. The students have 5 new words that we have determined the meaning of using context clues and we found synonyms and antonyms for each word. We have also learned our two new WOW words with the prefixes re- and pre-. Next week we will learn a variety of ways to study our vocabulary words in preparation for their test over their first two sets of words on Friday, September 15.

Math This week in Math we completed the first 3 lessons about Place Value. The students completed a Check my Progress for these 3 lessons on Friday. We will finish this chapter next week and will have a chapter test on either Wednesday or Thursday. Please check your child’s planner for the exact day.

Social Studies This week we started our first Social Studies unit on Geography. Our first lessons focused on map skills and different types of maps. As we continue our map study we will develop our own islands and maps of our islands. Students will be completing one current event each quarter. The explanation and sheet to complete the current event went home in Friday Folders. Current Events are due this quarter on October 20, 2017.