Dear Parents,

How are you all doing? I hope you all had a restful weekend. Here is a quick look at our 12^th week.

Read-a-thon

A special thank you to you all for your support during the read-a-thon. The book fair was a huge success at Barnes and Noble, and the read alouds on Friday was a beautiful time of story sharing too. The students enjoyed the lovely stories shared by all our parent volunteers. Thank you all for coming out to support the school. We got a total of 62 books from our book fair donations. Thanks to all of you for making this a reality for us. We are still collecting book donations if you missed the opportunity to bring it in last week. Please, check out the sign-up genius. The headmaster will announce the class that won the competition during our assembly on Monday. I will keep you all posted.

LANGUAGE ARTS  

SPALDING – We will continue with our spelling list this week. We have slowed down the spelling pace again because we have now started our second grade-spelling list. Please, review homework as they come home.

List 1: along, lost, name, room, hope, same, glad, with, mine, chair

List 2: forgot, guess, hang, meat, mouse, phone, store, supper, through, toe

List 3: became, brother, rain, keep, start, mail, male, female, eye, I

READING – READING STRATEGY: Our reading strategy this week will be making inferences and drawing conclusions. We will do a comprehension quiz on characterization this week. We will continue with chapters 3 & 4 in The Boxcar Children this week.

POETRY: Title: Our poem this month is “Merry Autumn” by Charles Dickens. Students will come home with a copy by the end of the day tomorrow.

SAYING: “Be true to what you stand for. If you're going to teach others, you should first live out those truths yourself” .We will appreciate it if you use it at home because children retain sayings when they engage in it through meaningful use.

           

GRAMMAR/VOCABULARY – Students will review adjectives, helping verbs and contractions.

WRITING – As we work with Writing With Ease, students will continue to develop narration, dictation and copy work skills. As the narration and dictation homework goes home every week, we are asking that you help us pay attention to proof reading their work. I really want to suggest that you encourage your scholars to write a sentence every day, and have them look back and correct their mistakes. I really want to create awareness to writing this quarter.

LEVELED READERS

Please, encourage your scholars to take their readings seriously. There are three pages of reflection and three books. They are expected to log in one book per page. Please, remind them to write the title of the text on the page they work on. We have seen some excellent writing skills thus far.

MATH

We will begin measuring weight using kilograms this week. We will learn haw to use a scale as well. Please, encourage scholars to help you weigh food items at the grocery store.

SCIENCE

We will finish our unit on water cycle this week. Study guides will come home for their test.

HISTORY

        We will wrap-up our Chinese unit this week. They will bring their study guides home as well. We will begin a new unit on Modern Japan on Friday. We will begin this unit by studying the Geography of Japan.

VIRTUE

Courage

“ I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”

                                           –     Nelson Mandela

Overcome Struggle with HEART

The quality of mind or spirit that enables one to face difficulty and danger with firmness and nobility.

Announcements

      Guided reading will continue on Tuesdays and Wednesday. On Tuesday, it will be 12:30 – 1:30pm (60mins) On Wednesdays; it will be 11:50am -12:50pm (60 mins). We will also have Math groups on Wednesday mornings starting this week at 8:05-9:05 am.

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Have a great week.

Sincerely,

Mrs. Toyin and Ms. Peterson