August 27, 2013

Welcome to a new school year! I am very excited to be back and am impressed with this class's energy and enthusiasm. We're off to a great start this year. The students have been learning our reading routines, practicing read to self, and working on comprehension strategies. They're creating interactive math notebooks with lots of foldables (and learning about place value through the hundred millions), experimenting with marbles and ramps, and creating writer's notebooks. We also are completing our first spelling/vocabulary unit this week, which means our first test will be on Friday. This week will focus on the definitions of the words, while next week's test will be about the spelling.

I hope to see everybody at Back to School night this Thursday! I'll be going over our curriculum and classroom policies in more detail then.

If you'd like to order books from Scholastic, you can do so on-line. Here is the link. Orders are due by September 9.

As a reminder, we are having gym twice a week this year! Our gym days are Mondays and Thursdays, and students should be in gym uniform on these days.