Week of September 10, 2018

Please Note

- These first few weeks of school are very important for setting expectations and learning our classroom routines and procedures. Students thrive in environments where they feel comfortable and know what is expected of them. I urge you to also have expectations and routines at home for things like completing homework, studying and reading. For example, each day after school your child can eat a snack, take out their homework copybook and begin their homework. You can even have a set place for them to complete their work. Simple things like this will help your child to become responsible, organized and independent!

- Please be sure to check your child's "Home Folder" every night. You can empty out any papers that were completed in school.  Please be sure to have them put their "H" and "R" copybooks back into their folder along with their bag of sight words after they are finished with them.

- An "All About Me" t-shirt project will be sent home this week. Please complete this with your child. It will be due THIS Friday, September 14th.

-Journals should be decorated (front and back) with an 'All About Me' collage theme (photos, stickers, printed cut-outs, drawings, etc.) and covered with clear contact paper by NEXT Friday, September 21st.

- On Friday, we will be having out One Book, One School Book Club. We will be talking about "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind" and making a craft with our 8th Grade Buddies! If you would like to send your child in with their book that would be great! Thank you!

- Friday will be a Dress Down Day for Speak Up. Please send in $1.00 with your child. Please also review the dress down day policy in the school handbook.

- Please email me with any questions or concerns :)

Homework

Monday
Reading: page 75
Practice Sight Words (know to read) These can be found in their "R" copybook and in their bag of word cards.
Math: page 1

Tuesday
Reading:  Neatly copy each spelling word one time (on same page in reading copybook)
Practice Sight Words (know to read) and Spelling Words (know to spell)
Math: page 2

Wednesday 
Reading: page 77
Practice Sight Words (know to read) and Spelling Words (know to spell)
Math: page 3

Thursday
Reading: page 78
Practice Sight Words (know to read) and Spelling Words (know to spell)
Math: page 4

 Our Week

Religion: 
"Jesus Teaches Us About God's Love"
We will be learning about the story of creation and how we were all made in the image and likeness of God. We will also learn about how God made each of us different!

Reading
Story: "Jack and the Wolf"
Target Skill: Characters
Phonics Skill: Short A sound and -ck words
Grammar: Complete sentences
Sight Words:  play, every, be, come, and, call, hear, with, said, away
SpellingWords:  an, bad, can, had, cat, ran, man, dad

Math
This week we will focus on writing numbers and number words. We will also work on putting numbers in order and filling in missing numbers on a hundreds chart.