Week of Sept. 23

Upcoming Events:

*Oct. 9 Early Out (2 hrs.)

*Oct. 24 and 28 Conferences  (Conferences on the 29th have been moved to the 28th due to regional volleyball)

Notes:

*The Tuesday that we missed last week will be made up on Jan. 6.

*We have started Super Achiever.  Each Friday one student will be picked who has shown exceptional character that week.  They will receive a subway coupon.  At the end of the month all of that month's Super Achievers will get to eat in the room with the teacher and receive a special treat.

*We are doing an excellent job of returning homework.  Keep it up!!

*Please make sure your child is reading their Hawk book each night and you are recording their minutes.  Prizes for the most minutes read by class and by student will be awarded next week.

Things to Work on:

*Time to the hour and half hour

*Recognizing penny, nickel, and dime

What we have been up to:

Reading: This week we have been talking about the word families /ack/, /ap/, and /ad/.  Students were able to sort words into these categories. n We also discussed the use of punctuation at the ends of sentences.

Math: In math we have finished our first unit.  Students did very well on this.  Our next unit will focus on relating equations to story problems and to solution methods.  We will also spend some time introducing money.  Students will begin adding and subtracting money amounts.

Social Studies: This week we wrapped up our study on maps.  We spent time talking about the cardinal directions.  We also briefly introduced the importance of reducing, recycling, reusing.  We will come back to this topic later in the year around Earth Day.  We sent out our Travel Teddies and are anxiously awaiting them.