💡DATES TO REMEMBER
- Mon, August 28th - start of Spalding Homework
- Fri, September 1st - Early dismissal at 12:30
- Mon, September 4th - No school (Labor Day)
- Tue, September 5th - start of Reading Bags (leveled reader and sight words/comprehension cards)
- Wed, September 6th - Start of Reading Volunteers Friday, October 6th - Half dismissal at 12:30
- October 9-17 - No school (Fall Break)
- October 16-17 - Parent Teacher Conferences, No Students
💡REMINDERS:
1. The scholars should bring the following daily:
- Water bottle with name
- Healthy and dry snacks in front pocket
- Take Home folder (please make sure they empty it at home)
*Your child may use the small backpack-shaped checklist of the things they need to bring to help them pack their things.
2. Please review the Driveline procedure here: directionsforparentsdrivelin.docx We have also attached the file in the resources on the right side of this webpage.
💡WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK
📕 LITERATURE / GRAMMAR: We listened to the tales of Hansel and Gretel, Rumplestiltskin and Puss this Boots. We learned how to sequence stories
📕 SAYINGS: "Fish out of water"
📕 POETRY:
Don’t Worry if Your Job is Small (Mighty Oak)
by Anonymous
Don't worry if your job is small,
And your rewards are few.
Remember that the mighty oak,
Was once a nut like you.
Hope
by Langston Hughes
Sometimes when I’m lonely,
Don’t know why,
Keep thinkin’ I won’t be lonely
By and by.
📕 READING: We will welcome parent volunteers on Sept. 6th. Use your teacher's sign-up to volunteer to read with the students (see link in your teacher's page on top). Please send your child's reading bag by Monday August 28th if you haven't done so.📕 SPALDING: We have been learning our first phonograms until ea. Check out the Spalding resources on this website to review letter formations, spelling/Spalding rules and phonogram list.
Next week, we will start with our Phonograms test on Friday, and Spelling Test of the 30 words we will learn next week. Kindly guide your child in their Spalding Homework.📕 MATHEMATICS: We practiced how to show numbers 1-10 in number bonds! We are having a Chapter Test next week about writing, ordering, and comparing numbers, as well as and showing them into number bonds.📕 HISTORY: We learned what History is and some words we need to know as we study history. We created a vocabulary foldable about that. We also learned about timelines and created our own timeline of past, present and future. Then, We went back in time talked and all the way to Mesopotamia, the oldest ancient civilization. We learned about its geography and why the Tigris and Euphrates rivers were important for their civilization.📕 SCIENCE: We continue to learn about the different states of matter by conducting experiments on solid, liquid and gas. We observed how water changes state when it boils and melts. We also learned how an ooblek changes its state through force. We practice writing our observations in our science journals.