Week of 9/21/2015

Class Business:

-Your children brought home math on Monday (it's due Friday). Please make sure this assignment "lives" in the purple folder as it goes back and forth to school.

-We go up to the high school on Thursday and are very excited to participate with the students in Mrs. Dean's science class.

-We appreciate any donations you'd like to give to our class auction. These items can be from your home (maybe Goodwill-bound  ). Books, games, stuffed animals, etc. are great auction items.

Reading:  We took a look at "real reading" today. They totally understood the difference between reading the words and thinking while reading the words. Your child should be reading for 20 minutes every evening at home. We preach that "readers are leaders" in here daily!

Math: Homework will be coming home weekly now. Please email if any of the Bridges curriculum needs clarification.

Writing: Our personal narratives are going great! It was so exciting to finally start our "rough, rough, rough" drafts. The students have great ideas and are on their way. It made me proud to see them get in the writing zone today.

Spelling: We have a spelling test every Friday. These are our words for this week: 

from, there, their, said, could, first, back, right, help, between, never, below, saw, something, thought, both

Challenge words: choose, choices, shelter, quickly, quietly

Social Studies: The 7 continent song is coming at ya! It's a fun one. We will be covering the cardinal directions and how to read a grid on a map.

Mystery questions.

1) What is the name of the imaginary line that runs north and south through the earth?

2) Name five countries in Africa.

3) Name five countries in Europe.

4) Name our city, county and state (you must spell them correctly) 

Thanks, 

Miss Irwin