Hi Families!
I hope everyone had a nice, sunny weekend! I'm crossing my fingers that the warm
weather sticks around for a while. I'm not ready for the cold yet!
I wanted to let you know that if you signed up to volunteer in the classroom, I will
begin making our volunteer schedule in October. I usually begin intervention
groups after our initial testing is done (ours should be completed this week), and this
year I would like to begin after conferences. Also, our conferences will be held on
Wednesday, September 30. I will be sending home a scheduled 15 minute time with
each child this week. Please send this back to school as soon as possible to let me
know if your time works for you, or if you need to reschedule. We are so excited to
be able to have conferences this year! It's always nice to get to sit down with
parents and chat!
Our plans for this week in math are to explore multiplying and dividing by 10 and 9,
while continuing to review our 5's and 2's. The students may take longer to work
through both multiplication and division facts at the same time, as they continue to
make those conceptual connections; however, we have found that teaching both
concepts together actually facilitates those meaningful connections. Please continue
to help your child work through these concepts, realizing that struggles are
okay! They are all learning something new and challenging! If you have concerns,
please let me know.
In our English, Language arts block, we are working on sequencing main events, as
well as, parts of a dictionary, commas in dates and place names, and subjects and
predicates. The students created their spelling list today, using the consonant,
vowel, consonant, silent e pattern. Here is our list of words this week:
Spelling List
consonant/vowel/consonant/silent e
1.
bike
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
lake
kite
make
knife
snake
pinecone
rake
rope
strike
brake
gate
homemade
race
ice
life
cupcake
18. huge
19. mane
20. mule
*1. turpentine
*2. concentrate
*3. Dumbledore
*4. language
Also, just a reminder from Ms. Dye:
We want to let parents know that we don’t have a way to heat up
their child’s lunch during the day. In the past, we put a microwave in the
lunchroom for the students to use. However, students were heating up things
that shouldn’t be in a microwave and it ended up getting broken. We don’t have
anyone to
supervise this during lunch, so we wanted you to know at the beginning of the
school year. Please don’t ask your child’s teacher to heat it up for them as
they are on lunch break. If you have any questions, please contact the office.
Thank you!
Have a wonderful week!
Mrs. Patterson