Monday News

Hello Families,

Last week the students in third and fourth grade worked on place value. Third graders added two-digit numbers and fourth graders added three-digit numbers.

In Science we started our unit on interdependence. We will take a trip over to the recreation field to pick a micro-habitat to observe. We will visit our site throughout the school year to observe changes. Send your child to school with sneakers on Thursday for our field trip to the rec. field. Students will also choose a micro-habitat at home. The homework will be coming home on Tuesday and will be due on September 25^th. The students will have two weeks to complete their observation of their home mini-habitat.

The students began rotating to Ms. Motta for social studies. In social studies, students began looking at physical, political and topographical maps.  

This week we will break into our spelling groups. Ask your child who he/she has for spelling. Spelling is 20 minutes each day and is a part of our daily literacy program. Reading workshop and writing workshop are also our daily routine. On Tuesdays, the students will have Enrichment with Ms. Askran. She has been a literacy teacher and is currently working on the theme - country versus city.

Important Dates:

September 16^th – Picture Day

September 17^th – Constitution Day

September 24^th – Huntington Field Trip to Burnt Rock and Alpaca Farm. Open house in evening. Bring your planner/calendar to sign-up for conferences.

September 25^th – We lead All School Morning Meeting

Homework:

Read each night for a minimum of 20-30 minutes. 

Math: 3^rd graders – page 5 and 13

4^th graders –pages 19-22

Science: Micro-Habitat at home. Instructions will be coming home on Tuesday.

Homework is due Friday, September 18th

Science Homework is due Friday, September 25th

Student Bloggers:

By: GJ and EM

We made amazing posters about ourselves.

We each have our own computers. 

Every day we have reading time.