Happy Monday 🙂 No School tomorrow, Tuesday Nov. 5 due to Election Day.

Thank you to those who have returned the blue conference slips. If you haven’t yet, please send them in with your child this week. I look forward to meeting with all of you to get more insite about your child so we can help them learn and grow together.

We are continuing our reading unit with the theme Characters Overcoming Challenges. We’ve been reading some new versions of fairy tales. Our primary reading strategy for this unit is visualizing what the text says when there are not pictures to support.

Our spelling words this week are focused on the long e sound: need, queen, tree, clean, read, leaf, key, happy, funny, piece. The students will be expected to spell the words correctly while writing them in the sentences I give them. I correct any errors in the sentences, such as capitalization, punctuation, other words misspelled but only count the spelling words.

Personal narrative is our writing genre for this unit. Students are learning to choose an event from their life that taught them a lesson and writing about it following a plan.

We’re continuing counting, reading, writing numbers to 1,000 in math. Counting money has been woven in as well.

Social studies continues our unit about map reading skills. Last week was understanding what a map key is and how to use one to help understand reading a map.This week, we’ll be viewing a map of Dearborn which will lead to us making our own.

Science will begin learning about the history of Earth processess that shape the surface.

Henry Ford is also collecting plastic caps of all kinds. We’re hoping to have enough to have some benches made for the playgrounds. Please send in only clean caps for us to collect. Bottle caps, toothpaste caps, laundry caps, etc. Our goal is 1,000 pounds!

Have a great week!