Weekly Update

Hi Parents,


Just a quick update for you this week...


Inclusive Schools Week:
Next week is Inclusive Schools Week, which is a time to celebrate our public schools as environments in which all students are invited to learn, regardless of educational, emotional, or behavioral challenges.  We will welcome a guest reader, who will share a story and lead a discussion about the importance of including everyone in our learning environment.


Supplies:
Many of the students have lost or ruined their crayons and markers. Please check with your child and ask if they are in need of any fresh supplies. If so, please send them in with your child at your convenience  I know I will be purchasing new crayons and markers for my own children. =0)

Focus Areas for the Coming Week:

• Reading:  We will continue or Word Detectives unit, in which we learn strategies for solving tricky words.  We will discuss the questions good readers ask when they read a story.  We sometimes call this "wondering".
• Writing:  We will respond to writing prompts and self-chosen topics as we continue to practice capitalization, punctuation, spacing, and letter formation. We will add a bit of "seasonal spice" to our writing with some Holiday themed projects.
• Math:  We will finish our addition unit.  We will begin our subtraction unit, in which we explore subtraction as the inverse of addition.  
• Science:  We will finish our study of economics: wants and needs, goods and services, consumers and producers.  We will begin to talk about communities.  We will talk about the community helpers who provide goods and services within communities.

Please let me know if you have any questions, comments, or feedback.