We are off to another great week. I am going to try and stay on the schedule this week so that the children have a better understanding of how our daily activities are organized. Tomorrow is library and the children will begin checking out books. They can read these books as a part of their nightly reading as homework.
The yearbook staff is collecting photos of the student's summer vacation experiences both in and out of the country. Please send or email your photos to Mr. Napodano in the Upper Division (nap@shorecrest.org) if you have any that you would like to share. They will be collecting photos until September 30th.
Picture Day is coming! Lower Division children will have their photos taken in the Student Activity Center on Tuesday, September 14th. Please make sure they are dressed appropriately when they come to school. The children's picture will be taken prior to recess and lunch on that day.
The children are coming home with their spelling words this week. These spelling words not only have a sound pattern, but they also relate to the stories that we will read in our reading books. Please make sure they take the practice test tonight with you so they can focus on only the words that they may experience some difficulty for the rest of the week.
I sent home a Geography project. I reviewed all the guidelines with you child. If you have any other questions, please don't hesitate to email me. Please make sure you sign the bottom portion of the letter and send just that portion back as your child will need the rest of the letter to complete the project correctly.
This week will study common an proper nouns, review the Scientific process, continue our study of the Wordly Wise words. These words for this lesson are: cylinder, examine, fatal, feature, grasp, jet, marine, scar, tentacle, and vessel. There will be homework this week so you can use the workbook to possibly call out the definitions or have your child read the definitions to you. There will be a quiz on these words on Friday. Remember.. the format that I showed you is fill in the blank. However, they will be provided with a word bank for spelling purposes.
If your child has not brought in the Handbook slip signed letting me know that he/she understands the rules, please make sure you send that in by Tuesday or Wednesday at the latest. I would like to get these filed and move on to other duties.
We will continue with number patterns, equivalent names using name-collection boxes, and introduce the language of number chances.. ie. certain, uncertain.. high probability, low probability of things happening. We will conclude the week by using a number grid to find differences in numbers and working on calculator routines.
We will test the Scientific Method this week as well with an experiment that deals with flying objects. The children should have fun and learning about variables and using the Scientific Method.
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