- If you did not get a chance to sign up for fall parent teacher conferences please do so here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0d45acab2fabf85-fall3
- Students are bringing home take home book bags today. They are a KIND bag that looks like a lunch box. These are new this year. We are moving away from zip lock bags in hopes that they last longer. Inside each bag is 8 books at your child's independent level. When they have finished reading them all, please send the bag back in your child's backpack. I will be on the lookout for take home book bags the first few weeks. After that it is your child's responsibility to get new books on their own during our morning routine. There is a note inside your child's FROG binder explaining how the take home book program works and reminding you of strategies to try with your child when they are stuck on a word. Remember, avoid saying "sound it out" when reading with your student.
- If you took a donation dot from curriculum night, please send your items in soon. Thank you!
Dates to Remember:
9/19 Picture Day
9/21 TRAKS kick-off assembly
11/6 Voting Day for Bond Proposal
Learning this week:
- Writers Will...
- stretch words to spell them
- zoom in on one small moment
- work on great endings instead of writing "and then I went home"
- use partnerships to storytell
- rereading our writing like books
- setting writing goals using a checklist
- Readers will...
- set and track goals during workshop time
- reread to smooth out reading voice
- track what their reading with their eyes by scooping up words (goodbye pointer power!)
- reread to see and notice more details
- Mathematicians will...
- review the partners for 7, 8, 9, and 10
- make math mountains for these partners
- make circle drawings for these partners
- write equations for these partners
- review doubles (3+3)
- review switched partners (4+3, 3+4)
- Scientists will...
- study and notice patterns in school (schedule)
- study and notice patterns outside of school (weather)
- In social studies we will...
- celebrate constitution day and reviewing our class promise
- learn how to make and keep friends
Pictures:
Nature Walk with 4th Grade Buddies. We observed many things including "The Moose Tree"!
We finally have our own private reading spots! Check out how organized we are with our planning mats. Great readers always make a plan!
Working on studying our own names and our friends names. We are on the hunt for short and long vowels, blends, and digraphs in names.
More observing and exploring with tools during Science. We created a list of our wonders that we hope to find out in science this year!
