Week ending 10/3/14

I can't believe it's October already!  September went by so quickly!  I hope you're enjoying the fall time with your families.
Some important information:

• I sent home the Scholastic flyers yesterday and the information for ordering.  It's a great way to get books for your child or gifts for others.  I also use the bonus points gained through parent orders to add to the classroom library for your children to read.  If you are going to order, please do so by Friday, October 10. Thanks!
• Next Thursday, October 9, is an early release day with dismissal at 12:30.
• Next Friday, October 10, is our Social-Emotional morning.  You will meet with staff from our school first in the auditorium and then join us in the classroom for morning meeting.  It's 8:30-9:30.  

3, 2, 1 things to know…

3 things we began studying and reviewing this week were: fact families focusing on always having 2 addition and 2 subtraction number sentences and the largest number goes at the end of a subtraction sentence; there are oceans and continents in our world and continents are larger than countries; and text to text connections help us understand the texts better.

2 skills we're working on in writing workshop are showing and not just telling the reader about our small moment story and writing goals for our narrative writing helps us be focused on the things we need to do to be strong writers.

1 thing that's awesome about our class is that we earned pajama day!  The students have been working really hard to learn routines, expectations, and begin working together.  Earning the baseballs for compliments for working together, trying their best, and doing above what is expected is awesome!

Have a great weekend!