September 24th -September 28th

 Hope that all of you had a wonderful weekend and enjoyed the beautiful weather.  I sure did. We had a wonderful week last week. If you get a chance, ask your child about the Preamble to the Constitution and see if they can sing it for you .This week is education go get it week . A flyer went home last Thursday that gave information about it. . Information regarding parent conferences will go out this week so please be on the look out for that.

Here is what is happening in our room this week:

Reading - we will continue to look at the features of fiction text, sequence events in a story and also write our first readers response.

Writing-Continue to work on personal experience story.Our focus this week will be to revise and edit the story looking at sentence fluency and also punctuation. Students are to have their story published by October 4th.

Science -We will be looking at the physical properties of matter and also how matter changes. We will start the week with  a buried treasure investigation .

Math -Our focus this week will be problem solving strategies. We will review strategies presented in second grade and then build on that list. On Friday, we will have an assessment that covers place value, money , and the hundreds chart.

Social Studies _ This week, we begin looking at variations in the physical environments and how that impacts people that live there.

HOMEWORK

Reading  20 minutes each week day  and a total of 60 minutes on the weekend.

Tuesday - Reading science article and answering questions
Thursday - Reading a short article about pumpkins and sequencing the story

Math- 
Monday - counting money sheet
Wednesday - working with money

Word Study
Each week, your child should be bringing home a half sheet that has words on it. The other half they are using in school. During the week , they should continue to practice their sorting of the words at home. We are really working on  hearing the sounds the words make and determining what category they go in by the headings they have. It is a great way for additional practice. I do not expect them to return them  but do encourage them to practice with them