Announcements

We are off to a great start!  Thank you for your support in getting the home 
readers signed and returned daily!  This will play a major role in your child's 
progress!

If there is a change in the way your child will be getting home please contact 
the front office.  I may not be able to check phone messages during the day.  
(office- 704-0700)

Check out what we will be learning....

Language Arts:
We have started reading groups and your child is being instructed on their 
instructional level in a small group.  We continue to grow in our abilities of 
reading workshop.  Our main topic right now is Schema--everything we know!  Our 
schema will help us make connections to the stories we read. 
In writing we continue to work on our small moment stories.  We are working 
really hard to focus it down while adding feeling and detail.  

Math:
We are having been building, comparing and ordering numbers.  We are working 
really hard to understand the numbers we are using.  We are also beginning 
addition strategies that will help us become fluent problem solvers.

Social Studies:
  
Science:
We have been studying rocks.  We have been learning the properties of rocks, how 
they are changed, and how rocks are useful.  We are currently studying soil and 
how soil is useful.