Dear Parents,

I hope that everyone enjoyed their 3-day holiday!! Even though this is a short week, we are working hard on a variety of projects.  In Reading, we are enjoying our read-aloud about Frog and Toad are Friends and Frog and Toad Together.  We are learning about the value of friendship and qualities that make a good friend.  The students are currently completing a friendship journal that will be sent home on Friday. 

During Daily 5, we are continuing to work on letter identification and sounds; sight words; rhyming words; and segmenting words into syllables.  The students enjoyed their Popsicle on Tuesday.  YEA!!! we met our goal for reading independently for 15 minutes. We have started our guided reading groups and will continue to work on skills based on individual needs. 

We are having so much fun experiencing shapes with hands-on activities.  I hope you all have enjoyed your pictures of us making shapes out of marshmallows and completing our food sort.  I hope these activities have helped your child understand the difference between flat and solid shapes, as well as, see shapes in our everyday lives. Our next unit will begin next week.  We will focus on counting 1-40; counting in patterns: 2's,5's and 10's; and making sets of objects 1-20. 

Yesterday, we started our 2nd unit in Social Studies entitled Me on the Map.  The students are expected to know the difference between a map and a globe and know where they are in relation to the world.  Tomorrow we will begin a two-day activity where we will make the world and break down each component of the world, continent, country, state, county, city, and home.

I can't wait to see everyone tomorrow night for Curriculum Night. Also, Fall pictures will be taken on September 11th.

Thanks,
Amanda Malone