Please check the assignment notebook for upcoming assignments. As we discussed at Back-to-School Night, the assignment notebooks have beeen working well to provide you with accurate assignment information.
The blog will provide you with an overview of this past week's progress and highlights of the upcoming week. If there is any confusion or concerns, please e-mail or contact me via my cell. The students have been very good in completing assignments and producing quality work.
It was a pleasure meeting with you at Back-to-School Night and discussing your child's curriculum, homework, grading, schedule and miscellaneous items.
We successfully completed the following:
- Science: Created a "Dog Life Cycle" Journal for science to record observations, measurements and behavior as we met with "Brody", a 16 week old King Charles Spaniel. Students observed Brody as he played with them in the playground, weighed him on a scale, measured his body length and ear length. We plan to meet with Brody every 2 weeks to observe his physical and behavioral changes as he transitions from puppy to adulthood through his life cycle.
- Reading/Writing: Added additional books to our Reading Logs, produced more advanced book reports to improve our writing and wrote interesting entries in our Reading Journals.
- Grammar: Learned the importance of capitalization and punctuation in our writing.
- Geography: Since we had such beautiful weather and we are studying mapping skills, we gathered our clipboards and wandered the grounds to develop a "Clark School Campus" Map. We also gathered items related to Fall and wrote about signs of Fall. We worked in our Geography books and identified the home continent for specific animals i.e. the platypus, the Koala bear, the kangaroo.
- Letter Writing: We wrote letters to Brody and his owner to thank them for their visit and comment on our thoughts about Brody. We utilized proper letter writng format and the final product was very professional!
- Reading Comprehension: We moved along in our reading comp books and completed another lesson.
- Social Studies: A Community and its components were discussed.
- Historical Figures: We read "Benjamin Franklin and the Magic Squares" and learned amazing facts about Ben Franklin! (Please ask your children about his many inventions!)We completed a biographical summary on Ben and will complets an educational kite on Monday.
Some highlights for this upcoming week:
- A Group Reading on Flat Stanley and writing project- instructions to follow!
- A science lesson on Owls (to follow through with our summer reading of "Hoot") and a take home activity to extend the lesson.
- To combine a Social Studies and Historic Figures lesson, a very special visitor, 1st Lieutenant Enrico Piatelli from the U.S. Army, will speak with the students on "how people make a difference" in our community and how the armed services help and protect not only our community but our country.
If possible, a few "wish list" items that would be greatly appreciated:
- A 1" -2" 3 ring soft-binder to create a historical figures journal
- 4" x 6" colored flash cards for spelling
- A copy of the books: Flat Stanley and Charlotte's Web
Also, thank you very much for sending in sturdy "pencil boxes" for writing supplies, a water bottle for our thirsty learners and napkins with lunch!
Your assistance is greatly appreciated.
Have a great week-
LouAnn
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