• This Week’s Happenings: 
• Tue: Library Day
• Fri: Spirit Shirts, Early Release at 1:00. Kick off for fundraiser

Announcements:  Our cookie dough fundraiser starts this Friday. Watch for information to come home next week.

We have also started our reading program. **Your student will be bringing home their yellow folders with 2 reading decodables each Friday. These stories can be read and returned for class money. If they read each story 3 times out loud with you, please sign it and have them bring it back. Yellow folders need to be kept in their backpacks.*

Reading in Class

• The essential question is: “How can a pet be an important friend?“
• Comprehension Strategy and Skill: Ask and answer questions to understand the characters, setting, and plot in a story.
• Spelling Pattern: Words with two-letter blends. For example: grass, trips, crack, still, west, mask, clap, plans, milk, belt
• High Frequency words: by, he, she
• Our Vocabulary words are: decide, different, friendship, glance, proper, relationship, stares, trade

Math in Class

We are learning how to use different strategies to solve simple 1-step word problems. We will test on Tuesday, Sept. 21 to check for understanding.

Reading Homework (optional, but highly encouraged!!) 

**Please read with your child. Make it enjoyable and fun. You can even read to them!! 20 minutes a day is a great goal. Your student has a September reading log they can fill out to keep track of how often they are reading. They also should be bringing home 2 decodables each Friday in their yellow folders. These stories can be read and returned for class money. If they read them 3 times out loud with you, please sign it and have them bring it back. *