Hi Families,

I hope you had a great week and are looking forward to your weekend. Enjoy the Movie Night at Rio this Friday and I will see you all on Monday. Here is a peek at our week....

Language Arts: We will enjoy 3 great stories from our Houghton Mifflin Reading Series. The skills your child will be working on are identifying fiction and non fiction stories, blending words with short vowels, find nouns in sentences, capitalizing names, and ending sentences with a period.

Writing: We will continue our handwriting program, Total Reading, which helps your child learn how to write "the first grade way" using the "magic C" and "straight line" letters. Watch for the paper to come home and have your children show you what they learned.

Grammar: We will continue our focused look at our 5 vowels and and the rules that make them short or long when used in words. Ask you child to tell you about the "Bossy E" and what he does to vowels in words!

Social Studies: We will use our Studies Weekly periodical to learn about the American and California flags, the Pledge of Allegiance and the history of Labor Day. Being kind to others will be weaved into all the daily lessons.

Math: We will start in Module 4 unit in our Bridges Math Program where students will work to find the missing addend and work with subtraction. We will continue working to subitize using our ten frames and work with non standard units of measure (unifix cubes and popsicle sticks)