Week of September 26th, 2011

Reading

Our story for the week is Mrs. Brown Went to Town. As the title suggests, it is about a lady who leaves the farm for a trip into town. It is a rhyming story that tells about farm animals moving into Mrs. Brown's house in her absence. As you can imagine this causes a few problems.

The comprehension strategies to be covered are predicting and inferring.

In our grammar lessons we will be talking about action parts of sentences.

Our vocabulary words are: different, floor, letter, move, poor, and word.

In phonics we will work on the long a and long i vowels using the CVCe pattern.

We began our reading groups this week. I believe everyone enjoyed the small groups. Mrs. Finn is a great asset to our room.

Math

The children took the chapter 2 test and did well. In Chapter 3 we will be working on place value and double digit addition and subtraction. Please keep practicing the math facts and home. We will have the second timed fact tests this week.

Homework

Great job on every ones part in completing the homework. Also, I appreciate the fact that all the reading bags came back. Thank you all for your cooperation.

Ide Book Fair

Thank you for the donation of books to our classroom. The following children and their families added great books for us to enjoy: Bella, Jack, Tanner, Chrissa, Nora, Lauren, Jessica, Christopher, Gretchen, and Patrick.

Star of the Week

Keaton was our special person last week. Keaton has one brother and one sister. Some of Keaton's favorite things are the color orange, cats, chocolate, Skippy Jon Jones books and football. At school he likes playing basketball in gym and playing outside at recess. Keaton wants to be a baseball player when he grows up.

Early Dismissal

Friday, September 30th is early dismissal. The children will get on the bus at noon.

Picture Day

Thursday, September 29th is picture day at Ide. Your child brought home an order form. Everyone will have their picture taken for the class composite but order a package is your choice.

District 66 Magazine Drive

We have two "Turn In" days next week, Tuesday and Thursday.