EEEK!!! Signed papers were to go home on last Thursday, but I was absent unexpectedly with a stomach bug. We played catch-up on Friday and I have been playing catch-up ALL weekend long. Signed papers will come home tomorrow with lots of important information. Included in the signed papers will be a scholastic book order (completely optional), a DIBELS report (to be signed and returned with signed papers), and a STAR Reading Report (for you to keep). If you have any questions about this information please do not hesitate to ask me!
We will begin our small groups and I will also explain the Reading Stations to the children. We will most likely spend Monday and Tuesday practicing our rotations and making sure everyone knows where to go and what to do while I am working with small groups. Please look for Read Well homework stories to come home on Wednesday. Remember, there will be one homework story (front and back) for each unit and it should stay in your child's take home folder to be read every night.
We had our first visit to the library on last Tuesday and each child checked out a library book. The children are reminded each afternoon during pack-up to take their library book home as part of their twenty minutes of reading and bring it back the next day. Everyone will get a new book each Tuesday during our class library time. The children were also STAR tested last week in the computer lab and I will be sending those reports home tomorrow. This report will tell you exactly what level books will help your child become a better reader. With this being said, the children will begin checking out books on their appropriate level to begin taking AR tests. AR tests are not required this early in the year but later on I will require that the children take a certain number of tests per week depending on their reading level. For those who would like to begin taking tests, you must read the book at least three times with a parent. Right now the children will be assisted by myself or a parent volunteer until I feel they can do it independently. After they take their test I will let them go to the library to check out another book.
READING
Our letter and sound for this week is "Mm" as in mouse and monkey. Our word wall words are me, our, pretty, going, and ate. In Science, we will focus on monkey facts and in Social Studies we will continue talking about The Five Senses.
LANGUAGE
We will continue working on capitalization at the beginning of a sentence. This week the children will edit sentences that do not have a period at the end. On Friday, the children will need to be able to copy the sentences correctly by using a capital letter at the beginning and a period at the end.
MATH
We will finish Ch.2 this week, which is more Addition Concepts. Please look at your child's homework page in their take home folder as to what lesson was completed each day. Remember that the night before our math test I will send home the review sheet from their math notebook. The homework pages along with the review page should not come back to school; it is simply to prepare them for the test.
MORE BLOUNT NEWS
This week we will rotate our specialists. For the next three weeks, our class will go to Mrs. Brand for computer. Our specialist time is from 1:25-2:00. The children will need headphones so please be sure to send them in if you have not already.
Tomorrow is our first day for the children to purchase Nancy's Italian Ice as a refreshing sweet treat. This is optional for the children. A variety of flavors will be sold for $1.00. This will be sold every other Monday and it is a school fundraiser, not a PTA fundraiser.
IMPORTANT DATES:
PTA membership drive will end on October 7th.
Spirit Night at Jason's Deli is September 13th.
Spirit Night at Burger King on Chantilly is September 20th.
Spirit Night at Nancy's Italian Ice is September 28th.
