Don’t forget that Scholastic Book orders are due Monday, October 2. Please make checks out to Scholastic Book Clubs.

Spelling/Phonics– We have a spelling test on Friday. Here are our words for this week:
New words- good, new, write, our, me
Review words- as, they, when, their, two, like, people, use, words

Reading– We are learning about putting a story in sequential order, what happens first, next, then, last. We read There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bat, put the events in order and then the students came up with their own story.

Math- In math this week we are learning how to add number strings looking for 4 clues to help us.
We are also identifying if a number is odd or even.

1. Doubles
2. Ways to make 10
3. Friendly numbers
4. Doubles +1

ex.: 6+7+6= (Add the doubles together first 6+6= 12 and then add 12+7= 19)

A note went home this week about a supply drive for Beaumont ISD. That city and their schools were hit hard by Hurricane Harvey and our school district would like to help them out by sending donations of school supplies and other items they may have lost.

Thank you so much for your help!

Spelling/Phonics– This week we will have our first spelling test on Friday. Every other week we will have a spelling test and the off weeks we will have some sort of phonics lesson. Last week we reviewed and discussed nouns. Also, when we have a spelling test we will have 5 new words and the rest of the words will be review words that are posted on our word wall. Then the next time we have a spelling test those last 5 words will go on the word wall and they will get 5 more new words. Here are this week’s words.

New words: go, much, back, through, get

Review words: they, have, what, there, which, been, now little, called

Reading– We are learning how to make inferences while we are reading a passage. You make an inference when you use clues from the story plus what you already know to figure out something that the author doesn’t directly tell you.

Math– We are learning the value of each coin and how to count a mixture of coins. Please practice skip counting by 5’s and 10’s, especially in the middle of counting numbers.
Ex. 25,30, 35, 40
30, 40, 50, 60

Most students know how to skip count by 5’s and 10’s when starting at the beginning but find it difficult when starting in the middle.

Scholastic Book Order
I sent home with your child today a Scholastic Book order. It is not due till Monday, October 2. If everyone gets their order in before the due date, I may send the order in sooner. I have attached a letter with all the information about who to make the checks to and about how you can order on-line using our class code printed on the letter and order form.

There is no school on Monday, September 4th, in honor of Labor Day. Stay safe and enjoy your time with family and friends!

We had a great week! In science this week wee learned what type of weather we might experience in each season and we did a tornado experiment. In math we reviewed ways to make 10, doubles and fact families. Next week we will begin our unit on money by learning to count a collection of coins up to $1.00. In read we have been reviewing how to be a CHAMP and doing readers response in our journals from books we have read. Next week in reading we will discuss what the plot of a story is and what we need to look for, such as who are the characters, what is the setting, the problem and solution.