Sorry I've been a bit behind in updating the blog this week! Tonight is Wednesday, so there is no homework other than for the kids to practice their spelling words. The words for this week are:
clean, agree, teeth, dream, grain, coach, display, window, shadow, cheese, peach, braid, Sunday, float, thrown
Challenge Words are: entertain, complain, bleachers, willow, wheat
The Student Council is sponsoring a fundraising event for the Animal Rescue League. They are asking for donations such as: paper towels & plates, old towels & blankets, clay cat litter, high protein kitten and puppy food, high quality dry or canned cat & dog food, laundry detergent, dish soap, canned tuna, litter boxes, and much more. If you are interested in donating any items, please send them to school with your child by October 5th.
Thursday's homework will be:
Home Link 2.3
Practice Book page 38
Study Spelling Words
Read 15 minutes
We will take our selection test over If You Made a Million on Friday. We have been working on distinguishing between realism and fantasy this week. We've also worked on using context clues to figure out the meanings of words we don't know.
In math, we started Unit 2. We are reviewing fact families and will work on adding & subtracting whole numbers throughout this unit. Please take some time to work on basic addition and subtraction facts at home.
The students are continuing to learn about how to use maps in Social Studies. We have learned about how the largest pieces of land on Earth are called continents and the largest bodies of water are called oceans. We're trying to help the students understand which continent we live on and how part of that continent is our country, and in turn, that in part of the country is our state. That's still a little fuzzy for some of them! :)
Mrs. Spurr is continuing to teach the kids about the human body. Right now, the kids are "dissecting" owl pellets. They are finding it quite entertaining and are amazed at what they are finding.
On Thursday, our class will go to the computer lab to work on Follow the Leader math activities. These activities will help the students improve basic math skills and will give me good information about what we need to work on in class.
Don't forget to start recording reading minutes in your child's planner starting on Friday (if you haven't already). This will be part of their homework each week from now on. You should also record books they are reading on page 8 in the planner. The goal by the END OF THE YEAR is that each child will read at least 20 books.
If you have any questions, please let me know!
Mrs. Vroegh
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