Good morning and welcome to our first full week of school 🙂 Open House is this Thursday from 6:00-7:30. I look forward to meeting all of you!

We will have Spelling tests each Friday. The students will write them a few at a time, daily in their Planner. Please ask to see it. Here is the list of this week’s words: has, sat, am, can, ran, will, fix, him, his, did. 5 of the words will follow a spelling pattern, this week it is short a and short i. 5 words are sight words that will help the students with their accuracy for writing and reading. I also do 5 Mystery Words that are given the day of the test that follow the weekly pattern. For example, if the students can spell “fix”, they can spell “mix”. I guide them through this but I encourage practice at home.

We are continuing building our stamina for reading to ourselves and writing during our Daily 5 rounds. We are discussing the elements of a narrative story this week: character, setting, as well as plot–beginning,middle, end.

Math this week will begin with number pattern counts within 1000. The focus is by 1, 5, 10.

Social Studies is learning about what makes a community–the people and places.

Homework will be coming home this week Monday-Wednesday.

Enjoy the sunshine 🙂