Last week in Language Arts, we talked a lot about different kinds of pets. We talked about what it means when a pet is popular, as well as what we need to do to care for our pets. Pets, like people, need to be groomed, feed and played with. Have your kiddo tell you about Tinka’s adventures in “Cool Dog, School Dog,” as well as what Cliff and his pet pig Slim did in ” A Pig For Cliff.”
We also finished up our science unit on the Sun, Earth, and moon last week, and will begin to investigate our natural world including rocks, soil and water. I would like to kick off our next unit in science by linking pets and rocks. I thought it might be fun for the kiddos to make a pet rock.
Please have your student bring in a small rock, they can hold in their hand, in a ziplock LABELED with their name. I am also requesting that students have paint shirts this year in an effort to TRY lol to protect their clothes. It can be any old button down shirt that you no longer wear with your student’s name on the collar. I am asking that both the rock and shirt be brought in by Thursday, September 28th.
With the emphasis on standards, and the fact that there are so many short weeks in the next few months, I am opting to change the LA schedule a little for the rest of the year. I will no longer be testing exclusively on Fridays and will only give spot spelling tests. However, this does not mean that students will not be held accountable for the correct writing and spelling of each weeks spelling and High Frequency words.
I am going to be testing students on their ability to READ ALL the High Frequency words covered in each quarter, so please break out the ringed High Frequency words I handed out at Back to School Night. If you haven’t already been working on them with your student, I highly recommend that you start NOW! The end of the term is Thursday, October 18th. I will be testing students on ALL HF words (aka High Frequency words) that week.
