Week of September 23, 2019

      This week the children will be busy preparing for their field- trip to the fire station.  The children will go to the fire-station on Forest-View and Murfreesboro Road.  Parents are invited to attend.  If you are going on the field trip please let your child's teacher know.  We will be going on Friday, September 27th.We will be leaving school around 8:30. The children will have lunch at school.  There is no cost for this field trip.

This week the children will be reading and discussing the Legend of Johnny Appleseed.  We will have an apple tasting party on Wednesday.  A note will be sent home letting you know what your child should bring on Wednesday.

This week the children will work on the following skills:

• Identify, decode, and read words with short/u/
• Review all of the short vowel sounds
• Identify nouns as a person, place, or thing.
• Continue to work on Phonological Awareness (Identifying rhymes)
• Continue to work on writing using good letter formation and spacing.
• Read and write about the legend of Johnny Appleseed,
• Read for fluency and understanding
• Read, discuss, and write about a story in sequence.
• Read and learn about fire safety.
• Unit math test
• Creating animal habitats 
• Weekly Memory Verse:  So Abram left, as the Lord had told him. Genesis 12:4

WEEKLY SPELLING WORDS:

fun, bug, rug, nut, cut, plug, stuff, truck, duck,  plum

Bonus Words:  fire - apple