October 26, 2018

Parents,

We had a wonderful first week back since Fall Break. I hope you all had a wonderful, relaxing vacation from school. Let’s discuss our week!

Reading & Writing: In reading and writing this week, students started to research non-fiction text features. Every day this week, students read a different non-fiction text. From there, they had to find 4 text features to help them better understand the concept. Bolded words, visuals, facts, and questions they had after reading. After doing this, students discovered that authors use these features to help us better understand difficult non-fiction concepts. Next week, students will be diving into their animals of choice for our big research project.

Math: Students this week practiced adding on an open number line. This practice is so important for students to practice their number sense and place value. Students learned this specific strategy all week, in addition to our shape math practice earlier this month, and were assessed on it this Friday with our Unit 2 post-test.

Phonics/Grammar: This week in Phonics/Grammar, we studied the wonderful silent magnetic E. This concept is so fun to teach to students because they can hear long and short vowel sounds as they follow it up with a consonant. Students can sound out a word and decide if it should be said in its short or long vowel sound. Next week, we will be continuing this practice.

Announcements:

1. Conferences are in just 2 weeks. Please make sure that you check your email for my Signup Genius that was sent out. You can sign up for a 20 minute conference there.

2. Our fall party is this upcoming Wednesday. Students will be making crafts, playing ghostly bingo, creating goodie bags and will have the opportunity to be creative with mask designs. Thank you so much if you followed my Signup Genius and volunteered or donated items! You can start bringing in those items beginning on Monday so I can prepare to set everything up. Thank you again!!

3. Our Holiday Food Drive is beginning November 5 – November 9th. Items can be delivered to the classroom where we will be helping out Cherry Creek families. Please see e-mail about this to see appropriate food items that can be donated.

4. Monster Mash is this weekend at Cherokee Trail High School. I hope you all have a wonderful time!! Please be safe and have a spooky time!