We will be taking the Cogat test this Wednesday September 5-7. This is an abilities test. This test will be used to determine if your child qualifies for the ALP (Advanced Learning Program). If your child scores high enough, more information will be provided to you in regards to this program. Please let me know if you have any questions. You may email me as needed.
We will continue to work on our global address in Social Studies. Please continue to practice at home as time permits. Global address includes address, city, county, state, country and continent. Please note this will be assessed for report card purposes. We will be going into learning our continents during this time following our global address. We will be visiting the Science Lab this week and continue to work on our weather unit and making observations about the weather.
We will be working on the final S blend during phonics time. We will be working on fixing sentences such as beginning capitalization, ending punctuation, etc. during Language Arts time. We will be introduced to Squiggle stories during Writing time. This will be a choice during our Daily 5 groups. Our spelling words/word work words this week: desk, fast, ask, wasp, blast, crisp, look, for, get and come.
We will continue with Place Value this week in Math. We will continue to discuss ones and tens as well as practice making groups of 10 with a large group of ones to determine how many tens and ones we have and what number this makes. We will discuss trading dimes and pennies. (ones and tens)
Important Dates and Events to Remember:
- Foundation Funding Drive
- September 6- PTA/Foundation meeting 6:00- 5th grade performance/Rock Eagle meeting
- September 8- Garden Clean Up Day
- September 14- Family Fun Carnival- Sign up to Volunteer
- September 15- East Cobber Parade- our CEOTY and TOTY will be riding in the parade at 10:00 AM.
- September 17- Foundation catalog sales
