July 28-August 1

This past week was very busy and we got a lot accomplished. This week we have another busy one in our hands! We will be taking our second math test of the year and we have been practicing for the past several days.

SCHOOL PICTURES ON FRIDAY!

Math-we practiced using many methods of adding: making a ten, using a number line, using a hundreds board, and using math mountains. Quiz Monday.

Reading-we continued working on identifying challenging words in our reading and using context clues to identify the meaning of the word. We took a brief quiz. There will be another quiz this week.

Writing-we continue writing our personal narratives. We are working on using a plan to generate ideas, then using the plan to create a draft. We are working on writing complete sentences, and beginning/middle/endings. 

Science-we worked on identifying the differences between solids, liquids, and gasses.

Social studies-we discussed the differences between what good citizens and bad citizens do. We worked on creating a definition for what a citizen is and different examples.

I wanted to take a minute to review a few things that the kids may be miscommunicating. Each night there is homework. The homework for each night is typed out in the assignment sheet. We did change the word study homework last week for open house. Each Monday your child will get their homework for the entire week. It does not all need to be completed in one night. As we dig deeper into the year some of the homework may not make sense until after the lesson has been taught. I'm attaching this weeks assignment sheet:

	Week of  August 4-8	Name	#
Monday	I read _________ minutes last night. Parent signature	·         Math: ·         Fact Strategy: Plus two ·         Letterland: ·         Day 1- read the words twice	Special COMPUTER
Tuesday	I read _________ minutes last night. Parent signature	·         Math:   ·         Math Mountains and equations ·         Letterland: ·         Day 2- look, say, cover, write, check ·           Wear sneakers for PE tomorrow	ART
Wednesday	I read _________ minutes last night. Parent signature	Math:  Game-Racing along homework page Letterland: Day 3- write 6 sentences	PE
Thursday yyyy	I read _________ minutes last night. Parent signature	Math: Day 16: Think about the Situation Letterland: Day 4-practice test	MUSIC
Friday	Total minutes read for the week                                        Mins. Parent signature	Any unfinished work from the week will be homework over the weekend.

Sign & return sheet on Monday after the weekend please! J________________________________

*Please note that we do not have specials on Friday. We will use that time for either extra recess or playing a math game*