Many thanks for all the forms and classroom fees coming in.  If you have not paid the $85.00, please do so soon-thanks.  I have most of the forms in, but please get them all in as soon as possible-the emergency form, Internet form, Media form, free/reduced lunch form-thanks.

We have another busy and productive week planned.  Routines are becoming second nature and we are organizing our day so as to be very productive!  I hope to see you TONIGHT at the first PTA meeting, but just as important, this Wednesday for our OPEN HOUSE at 7:00.  I will go over all curriculum, schedules, expectations, etc and hopefully answer any questions that you have!  Please come!!!  We'll get the year off to a great start!!  Thanks

Language Arts:  Our Accelerated Reader Program is up and running-did your child take a test today on a book that they are reading?  Please ask them what book they are reading this week.  We are also discussion diffent kinds of fiction (what can they tell you), different kinds of nonfiction, keeping a record of what they are reading, and guidelines for working together in large and small groups.  We are also writing in our Writer's Notebook and in our Journals.  (Learn more at open house!!!)

 

sorry for the delay...my computer crashed.  our computer guy Russ just came and got it going again....

Homework for language arts :"what's My Bag?"  Ask your child.  I went over the assignment very clearly.  Hope you are reading this and they can tell you!

Math:  Lessons 1.8-1.11.  Homework Monday through Wednesday.  We will do homework together on Thursday in class.  No school on Friday for the kids.

Art:  Collage making - a cut and paste technique used by artists.  Title: Calico Animals.  If you have, I could use...small pieces of fabric, buttons, rickrack, and other trimmings.  Gift wrapping paper is an item that several of the art projects use.  Thanks.

Social Studies:  We are working on mapping skills-aerial photography and street mapping.  What can your child tell you that they learned to