September 12, 2014
Parents,
Our
story in language arts, Henry and Mudge
and the Starry Night, is about a family who goes camping. We talked about nature and continued
discussing the night sky. We wrote
stories about our own adventures in outer space.
Your
child is bringing home a moon observation journal today. We learned about the phases of the moon, we
acted out a poem, and I challenged the students to look at the night sky four
different times and record it. They may
want to skip some days between to show the different phases of the moon. There is no due date, but students will get a
“Something to Celebrate” when they return it.
We’re
learning addition strategies in math.
We’ve practiced adding doubles, adding near doubles, and adding in any
order. We made “doubles dudes” to
practice our doubles facts. I would like
all students to have their doubles facts memorized all the way up to 10+10.
Thanks
for having your child return his or her homework each Friday. If they are spending twenty minutes each
night on homework and still can’t finish, please write me a note on their
homework explaining that.
I
sent home book orders today. Please send
in your order by next Friday. If you go
online, you will see that there is a larger choice of books. You can even do a search. Online ordering is easiest, but you may also
send your order with your child.
I
also sent home an order form for Highlights magazine. Please mark it yes or no, sign it, and return
it with your child. Our class can get
prizes just for returning the forms, and no one has to buy anything. Thanks!
I
will send out another email this weekend with our parent helper schedule. If you have not had a chance to sign up,
please do so this weekend. We will start
our schedule next week.
I
would like to start sending most messages through email. You should have received an email message
from me this week. If you did not,
please email me this weekend so I can add you to the list.
Please
sign up for parent teacher conferences as soon as possible. Your child brought home a yellow form
explaining how to do that. Picture day
is this Thursday, September 18. Please
send the envelope that day if you are ordering pictures.
Don’t
forget to check out our class blog, mrsadams2.blogspot.com. I put the newsletters on it, and there are
several links to educational websites.
Thanks
for all you do!
Kristen
Adams