I hope you all enjoyed the long weekend! Thankfully, this upcoming week will be cooler and we will be able to go outside for PE. Remember to have your child bring a water bottle to school every day.
We will be completing a diorama project for social studies next week so please start bringing in any shoeboxes you have at home.
Conferences and minimum days start this Thursday and continue into the following week. Please check your conference time here and arrive promptly at your scheduled time. Keep in mind that many conferences are back to back so I will do my best to stick to the twenty minute appointments. If you cannot make it, please let me know prior to your appointment. I look forward to meeting you and discussing your child’s progress.
Here is what is happening this week:
Monday – Labor Day; no school.
Thursday – conferences and minimum days begin and continue through to the following week.
Here is what we will be learning:
Language Arts – We will be reading an excerpt from Call It Courage and will work on the following skills: identify key events and summarize, determine theme, analyze word choice and point of view, compare themes.
Writing – We will be finishing our narrative drafts, revising, editing, and publishing to our blogs hopefully by the end of the week. Students had a choice to write what happens next in Jason’s Challenge or Cassie’s Fight. Ask your child which story they are writing about.
Math – Students really enjoyed the grocery shopping activity on Friday. Thank you for the Vons fliers! This week we will be looking at measurements, speed, and conversions.
Social Studies – Students will read about how early civilizations developed around a major river system, the development of the world’s first city-states, and Mesopotamian achievements.
PE – With only two days of PE, we might just practice our game of kickball this week.
