WOW!  This year is really flying by!  I can't believe it is already October.  We will be having our first High Tech/High Touch activity on Tuesday, October 9th.  We will be learning about magnets.  If you have not sent in your permission form, please do before Tuesday!

Thank you so much for sending in apples and helping your children with their apple projects during the past 2 weeks.  They did a good job with them and we had some yummy projects!

The boys and girls did a great job taking the CoGat test last week and I am sure ALL of our GM students are glad the testing is finally over!

In math we continue to work on subtraction strategies.  We are learning how to graph, count the minutes on a clock by 5's and then 1's, and we are beginning to count money.  Please be sure to practice counting by 2's, 5's and 10's with your child.  Don't always start at the beginning...have them start counting by 5's at 20, or by 2's at 16 or by 10's at 40.  This is a big help when they start counting money and time!

I only had about 50% of the class reach our September Reading Log goal of 300 minutes.  I had planned to "up" the daily time to 15 minutes but will keep it at 10 minutes through October.  Let's all try to read, at least, 300 minutes during the month of October.  Don't forget to record it on your log!

LOOKING AHEAD...

October 8th  Reflections Deadline

October 16th  Picture Day
                 and
Texas Roadhouse Dinner Night

    

October 17th last day for box tops
and Early Release Day