Week of September 12-16

This week:

• Students will be reading realistic fiction stories.
• We will discuss jobs in our communities.
• We will identify and discuss characters, settings, and events.
• Students will learn, decode, and identify words with short e.
• We will learn to use words with the inflectional ending -ed and discuss past tense.
• We will begin identifying and writing contractions.
• Students will continue to write complete sentences.
• We will study the story of Abram leaving his home.
• Students will be retelling the Bible story,
• We will continue to solve subtraction problems and word problems.
• We will begin a study of Magnets and do some simple experiments.

This week's Spelling Words: leg, beg, men, hen, head, bread, grass, spin, there, again

Bonus Words. magnet, attract

Please continue to check and sign your child's planner everyday.

Encourage your child to read his/her AR book to you several times before taking an AR test.

Keep practicing sight words as often as you can. Even if your child has mastered these it is a good idea to review.

Open House is this Tuesday, September 13 from 5-7 pm. Please plan to visit the classroom to see what your child has been doing. There will be sign up sheets for Parent-Teacher Conferences at Open House. Conferences will be on September 22nd.

The 3rd annual Vocabulary Parade will be on September 23rd. Please check your emails for information on this from the office. It is a very exciting day!

Our first field trip will be on September 29th. We will be traveling to Walden Farms. Be looking for more information to come about this trip.