Mondays News for October 5th

On Friday, we had so much fun collecting school yard rocks as part of our science unit. We had already explored properties of volcanic and river rocks. Now, we get to explore the properties of rocks we have found right outside our classroom window. There are some really cool ones!

This week, we will be starting a more formal version of word study. To best meet each student where they are in their development of spelling, vocabulary and word recognition, we will be using a program called "Words Their Way" as the basis for our word study program. Each week, your child will be studying words that follow a certain spelling pattern, as well as some common words students need to know that do not follow regular spelling patterns. A homework menu will be coming home next week that will give your child a variety of choices of how to study (and we hope have fun) with their words each week.

A reminder that the K-2 Open House is this Thursday, October 8 from 5-6. The Spaghetti Dinner sponsored by P.I.E. will follow (from 5:45-7). We hope to see you all there! Enjoy this picture of our classroom quilt that will be hanging at the Open House along with lots of other wonderful student work.