September 19-22

Important Dates & Info/Reminders:

• September 23: No school for students - PD day for teachers

• September 27: Picture Retakes- Please email me if you plan on having your student retake their school pictures.

• Scholastic orders due September 23. You can shop online here, just enter the class code Q2M6Q.

• Parent teacher conferences are Monday, October 10 and Wednesday, October 13. More information coming soon!

• For Specials, we have Science with Mrs. Smith next week.

• If you are willing and able to send in water bottles for students who forget theirs, we would greatly appreciate it!

• We will take our first i-Ready Growth Monitoring assessment next week. This is a shorter version of the diagnostic that students took a few weeks ago and give us a snapshot of how they are progressing in both reading and math.

• Please send back your washed and dried tie-dyed shirts as soon as possible. Thank you!

• Fun Run early registration: The Fun Run is almost here! Get your students registered before Friday, September 23rd to be entered into our early registration sweepstakes. Two winners, one from each school, will be chosen and receive a Colorado State Parks pass! Register today at www.funrun.com.

What we learned this week:

• Phonics: We learned the letter Ee and the 2 sounds it represents. We also learned that letter Ee is a vowel! We reviewed all of the letters and sounds we have learned so far.

• Reading: We used our schema to discuss what we already know about how apples grow and shared what we learned after reading a non-fiction book about apples.

• Writing: We brainstormed topics to write about by looking at the world around us.

• Math: We started Topic 2: Compare Numbers 0 to 5.

• High Frequency Words: We learned the word “and”. We have learned the following words: I, a, am, the, like, eat, in, it, did, into, and. Continue to practice reading and writing these words at home.