Classroom News- Augst 12-16

What are We Learning This Week?

Science: We will continue our unit on Weather.  This week we will talk about the seasons and the types of precipitation. 

Phonics: This week we will start our phonics units.  This week's unit focuses on the l blends. We will have our spelling test on Friday of every week. We will work on these words during word work and during phonics. Also, please work on each night for homework.

Math: We are continuing our unit on Graphing.  The children are learning how to conduct a survey, take data, create a tally chart and then create either a picture graph or bar graph using the information they gathered. 

Language Arts: We are working on Reading to Self and learning about Daily 5 and the expectations during this time. The children have been working hard on staying focused, staying in one spot, and ways to read a book.  The students will also write their first narrative.  This will be a baseline for us to determine your child's writing ability.  We will be writing about something we did over the summer break. 

Learning Commons:  We will be visiting the Learning Commons on Friday for our 2nd orientation lesson.  Please have your child bring in their book so they can check out a new one. 

Homework starts this week.  The children will bring home their homework on Monday's and they will need to return it on Friday.  This is part of the responsibility quality we are trying to teach them in our class. 

Important Dates:

Tuesday, August 13th: Zaxby's Night

Friday, August 16th: Spirit Day. Wear your Addison T-shirt
Friday, August 23rd: FBI Breakfast.  Dads come have breakfast with your child and stay for the meeting.
Wednesday, August 28th: Early Dismissal - 12:30
Thursday, August 29th: 3rd-5th Grandparent breakfast.
Friday, August 30th:  K-2 Grandparent breakfast
Monday, September 2nd: Labor Day NO SCHOOL
Thursday, September 5th: End of the first 41/2 weeks. Progress reports sent home.