MPORTANT REMINDERS
Tuesday: Tuesday folders come home. Please sign the folders and return the next day. Look for homework "menu".
No library check out this week- You may still keep the books for one more week.
Monday, Wednesday and Friday: P.E. days. Please have your child wear tennis shoes.
Please continue sending a healthy snack each day. Thank you!
September 28th: Early Release Day School Dismisses at 12:00.
Headphones Needed
This year we will use laptops in the classroom to support our learning. Each child will need a pair of headphones so that they may hear and concentrate on their own work. These headphones will stay at school throughout the year and will be needed each year. We plan on using the laptops for the first time this year next Monday.
GROWTH MINDSET/WAYS TO HELP YOUR CHILD
We will continue to instill the attitude of "perseverance, embracing challenges, and giving our best effort", in our daily activities. When something is a little more challenging, the children naturally say, " This is too hard, I can't do this". We want the children to change their thinking and mindset: "I can't do this YET, but I will keep trying and give my best effort, until I can". Please help your child to change their mindset. Use the same language at home when they feel defeated by modeling it yourself.
Here is what we will be doing this week:
READING
This week in reading we will learn how strong readers get their mind ready before they start reading a book. Strong readers look at the title and the front cover of the book before reading it to predict what the book or story might be about. Readers also take a book walk/picture walk to get an idea of the story. They will activate their prior knowledge by making a connection between things that they already know or have read and the new information in the book. All these will help readers to have a better understanding of the book they are reading.
WRITING
We will continue working on our stories. The children have done a great job illustrating and writing about some real events in their lives. This week they will practice planning across their hand strategy by raising the first finger (thumb) to tell the beginning of their stories and the next fingers to tell the next events until they get to their pinky and that would be the last event. This strategy will allow children to tell their stories with a beginning, middle, and ending. We will continue to work on reading our stories to make sure they make sense (re-visiting our stories or revising them) and check for correct sentence structure, capitals, periods, and sight words.
MATH
This week we will work on counting by 2's starting from 1 (1, 3, 5, ...), or 2( 2, 4, 6, ...)to 20 (differentiation to 100). We will use number track, number line, or hundred chart to look at any given number to find out one more/one less (differentiation: more or less to 100). We will use 5 as a bench mark to count and add on. For example if we see 5 dots and 4 dots on a domino, we know automatically the total is 9, since we use 5 as a benchmark and we count up from 5: 5-6-7-8-9. We will work on math problem solving that involves addition using counting by 2's strategies.
SOCIAL STUDIES
September 17 is Constitution Day. We will review and discuss the importance of rules at our homes, schools, and communities and define constitution as a set of rules for our country and states. We will travel back in time to learn why the Founding Fathers of the Unites States wrote the Constitution.
SCIENCE
In science we will continue learning about properties of objects. We will do some experiments and make predictions and observations to see how the properties of objects/materials change when they are heated or cooled.
THANK YOU!