Monday: Reading book bags and homework go home. Please turn in all homework books and bags each Friday! I will wait for the book to be returned before I send a new book.
Tuesday: Tuesday folders come home. Please return signed Tuesday folders every Wednesday morning. Look for Math homework.
Please make sure you check your child’s Daily Folder each night.
Wednesday: Library this week. Please return books by 8:00 am.
Friday: Math and Reading homework due!
Saturday, Oct 24: Harvest festival 4-7 pm. Volunteers are still needed. See you at the festival!
Parent conferences: If you have not signed up for a parent conference time please look for a new sign up sheet in tomorrow's Tuesday folder. I look forward to meeting with each of you!
This week:
READING
This week we will read expository/non-fiction books. Writers of expository books are experts in an area and therefore they write to teach us about that subject. We will learn that the purpose of reading expository books is to get information. We might have questions before reading a non-fiction book, or questions during reading the non-fiction book, or even after reading it. These questions will help us to read more and find out more. We will learn about the features of non-fiction such as: table of contents, index, glossary, real photos, labels, and captions.
WRITING
We will continue revising our stories for one more week. Ask your child what revising is and what is the purpose of revising. We are learning to reread our stories carefully to make sure that our stories make sense. In the process, we are learning to add some more words or take off a few that are not needed. We are checking for sight word misspellings, neat writing and correct punctuation. Some of us are even adding dialogue in quotation marks to make our stories more interesting. I am so proud of my young writers!
MATH
This week we will learn to tell time. We will learn to tell time to the hour using a digital and an analog clock. We will learn about the parts of a clock, the hour hand (the short hand), and the minute hand (the long hand) and how they move: The minute hand makes one full turn while the hour hand moves slowly from one numeral to another. Later on in the year, we will learn to tell the time to the half-hour.
SOCIAL STUDIES
This week we will learn about historical figures such as Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, Garrett Morgan, and Richard Allen. These important people influenced our nation through their individualism and inventiveness. We will learn about their inventions and their contributions to our lives.