I hear the Color Run went well. For those of you who went, wear your shirts this week 🙂

Today is Picture Day however, if your child is absent or you forgot, there will be a day for make ups at a later time.

We have a fun but educational evening this Wednesday: Social Studies Night 🙂 There will be many activities to do including a mock election for students to choose new playground equipment and a Spirit Day. It runs from 5:00-6:30. It’s always a fun event. Hope to see you there!

Our reading strategy this week continues to be asking and answering questions from both fiction and non fiction text. We’ll be using texts that also teach a bit about our American history and the beginning of our nation’s founding.

Spelling words this week focus on the long a sound spelled “ai”, “a”, “ea”, “ay”. day, rain, mail, play, paint, stay, break, great, chain, say. Beginning this Friday, the words will be given in sentences that students have to write for the test. Only spelling words will be marked incorrect not the other words in the sentences–unless the letters are written backwards, “d” for a “b”, “q” for a “p”. I will be reminding them to use capital letters at the beginning of each sentence and punctuation at the end.

We also continue learning about writing an opinion piece for our writer’s workshop time. We’ve been reading 2 different fairy tales, discussing them and reading opinions about the characters written by others. Beginning this week, the students will write their own opinion based on a prompt I will give them.

We are learning to read, write and model 3 digit numbers for our math skills this week. The students have been drawing models as well and reading models the show a number. This leads into counting and modeling money amounts using bills of $1, $10, $100.

Looking ahead to Halloween: The students are allowed to wear their costumes to school all day, just no weapons or scary masks. The parade will be inside throughout the school with the PTA members passing out candy. If you’re not a PTA member yet, please join so you can join us for the parade 🙂 Bags of candy will be needed by the PTA for the candy passing. No class party–parade instead.

All for now! I’ll update if there is anything new during the week 🙂

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