Friday, August 26, 2016

Friday, August 26th, 2016

Good Afternoon Families!

It was an absolute pleasure seeing you last night!  I hope you found curriculum night to be informative.  Your involvement and support are greatly appreciated!  

The link you clicked on is our classroom Blogger page, which will have bi-monthly classroom updates.  Included in the updates will be our current target concepts in all academic areas, classroom events, and important upcoming dates.  An email with a link to our classroom Blogger page will be pushed out every two weeks when our Blogger page is updated.

Here are the targets we are currently / planning on working to master over the next couple of weeks:

Literacy
* Our students are currently working on finding the theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic.

Writing
* Our students are off to a great start writing narrative pieces. We are currently working on planning our baseline free-topic narrative piece.

Math
* Our students are currently recognizing that a digit in one place represents ten times as much as it represents in the place to its right and one-tenth of what it represents in the place to its left using whole numbers and decimals.

Social Studies
* We plan on starting geography in the coming days.  We will start with locating states and countries based on relative location.

Science
* We started instruction of our new science curriculum!  Our current focus is on understanding the makings of a various ecosystems around the world.


Upcoming Events
** Tuesday, August 30th - Early Release
** Monday September 5th - No School (Labor Day)


Friendly Reminders
** Please remember to send your child with a healthy snack.  Nothing feeds the brain like a healthy snack!  

** Please continue to have your child practice their multiplication facts up to 12.


Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions.  Thank you and have a fantastic weekend!

Enzie Pangilinan