Have a Wonderful Three Day Weekend!!

Hats off to another spectacular week!

This week in Language Arts we have been working on comparing fiction and non-fiction texts, identifying and describing text features, and using graphic organizers to prepare our writing. Next week we will be continuing to practice identifying and describing text features, in addition to inference and identifying the main idea.

The past two weeks in Social Studies have been concentrated on the Six Character Counts Pillars: Respect, Responsibility, Caring, Trustworthiness, Citizenship, and Fairness. We have been making text-to-self and text-to-world connections as we read various stories, and describe how they show examples of the various Pillars. Two books we've read so far are Do Unto Otters and The Berenstain Bears and the Messy Room.

We've focused primarily on patterns this week in Math. We will continue this focus as a practice point, as we move on to place value.

Even though it's September - it's still WICKED hot!! Our classroom is in an oddly-placed space in the building - as in not close to ANY water fountains. Please send in a water bottle with your child with his/her name written on it in permanent marker. This will allow your child to have water whenever he/she needs it, and eliminate the travel time it takes to go to and from the water fountains. We have a super-short day!! Let's do everything we can to make the most of our time! :)

I hope you all have a wonderful three day weekend with your families and friends. Thank you again for your continued support and communication ~
See you Tuesday!

K.M. :)