Week of Sept 14-18

Good afternoon  everyone. I hope you had a fantastic weekend.  We have another short week this week (meaning the students) as there is no school this Friday, Sept 18, for students. Also a reminder that our library day is Thursdays, so if you could make sure that if your child wants new books they must return their old books on Thursday.


Language Arts:

Spelling

Our spelling words for this week are as follows;

let   his   had   ask   old   took   also   sat   fell   get

Also as there is no school Friday, we will be writing our spelling test on Thursday.

Reading

We are going to be implementing the Daily 5 program in many of the classroom here at East Elementary.  Essentially this means that every day, students will engage in 5 different activities each day.  One of these activities is called "Read to Self".  Reading every day helps us to build reading stamina.

Math:

We just started our unit on patterns.  A note from our math program went home regarding the learning goals for this unit.  They are as follows;

• I can describe, extend, compare, and draw repeating and increasing patterns.
• I can create new patterns.
• I can sort a set of objects, using 2 attributes, and explain the sorting rule.

Science:

We have begun to look at the properties of magnets.  We started talking about how magnets have 2 poles and that when you put 2 poles together they either attract or repel, depending on which 2 poles you put together.  We have also looked into what materials magnets are attracted to.  Students will be getting some more opportunities to work with magnets and explore their properties in more detail.

Social:

We are working towards finishing up our mapping review unit.  The students have been working on directions (a compass rose) as well as symbols we may find on a map or in real life (a legend) that will give us information about a place.

I hope everyone has a great week and a wonderful "3 day" weekend.

Mr. Aasen