I enjoyed meeting all of you on Friday. I am excited to begin a new school year and am reminded of the Dr. Suess title, Oh the Places You’ll Go. I welcome you as partners on the journey.
Just as a reminder: Open House for grades 3-5 is Tuesday Night, Aug. 16, from 6-8. There will be only one classroom session. For those of you who need to be in another intermediate session, I will have handouts available for you and will be glad to meet with you at another time if you have additional questions. PTA will begin their meeting at 6:00 in the cafeteria. The K-2 Open House is on Thursday night.
Getting to know my students is my primary goal this week. There will be many interactive and fun activities as we work on building a classroom community of mutual respect and support for one another. I will begin some pre-assessments to determine where we are academically. I do not plan to assign homework this week.
Units of study for the first quarter:
Math: Place Value through ten thousand, addition and subtraction with regrouping.
Science: Rocks, Minerals, and Fossils
Social Studies: Roots of Democracy, Map Skills, Introduction of Famous Americans –Paul Revere
Language Arts: Reading Strategies and Narrative Writing combined with spelling and grammar lessons.
We will begin completing our agendas this week. It will give you a brief overview of what we did during the day. Homework will be highlighted or written in green when it is assigned. (Remember: no homework this week.)
Aug. 19- Vacation T-shirt Day.
