Weekly News for September 20-24

I hope you all noticed the paper in the Redding folder that confirmed the time we will meet on Sept. 30.  I look forward to meeting with every parent and sharing samples of your student's excellent work!

Midterm grade reports came in the folders on Friday.  Please sign and return those just so I know all parents are aware of what is going on as far as grades go.

Thank you to all parent who continue to check agendas daily and initial that they have seen assignments and worked with their children.  The kids are the ones who benefit by knowing their parent cares about their education! 

Enjoy the pictures of the chidlren reading and in the library posted the class photos page.  They are book crazy right now!!

Mrs. Burbrink's Reading Group

During independent reading time, the children can pick books from any of the genre baskets.

Definitions of the genres are posted next to the reading center.

    I am excited to work with this newly organized group of children this week.  We will be reading about seeds growing into plants.  We will even plant some seeds to see the process!  We will concentrate on being able to retell a story.  Children should be able to retell the steps of a seed becoming a plant.  Read the leveled reader that comes home on Mon.  On Tuesday evening, the story "Watermelon Day" will be read out of the reading book.  Parents are encouraged to read this with the children.  A good idia for sharing is to have the child read a page, then the parent takes a turn.

Spelling

Our new word wall words this week are:
write,  right , wrong, knew, rain

We will work on transferring what we know about these spelling patterns to other words.  For instance, if you can spell right then you can spell light, tight, fight, bright.  :) 

Look back in the agenda to previous week's words and practice them.  Five of those old words will be on the test on Friday. 

Math

We are finishing up chapter 3 this week.  Please help your child make the connection between addition and subtraction facts.  The flashcards that come home should help.  We call this connection "fact families".  You can take three numbers:  3, 4, 7 and make facts.  3+4=7    4+3=7    7-4=3    7-3=4   That is a fact family!  Learning this will make knowing the facts so much easier. 
Thanks for all you do at  home!   Many children are really progressing on the math facts chart! 
We still work on math skills that revolve around a certain number every day. 
We have added skills with rulers and counting money. 

Science

We have learned so much about animal g roups.  We will review facts on Mon, Tues., and Wed.  On Thurs. we will take a test over what we have learned.  The children will know the questions on Wed.

Weekly Overview for September 13