• This Week’s Happenings: 
• Mon: Math Diagnostic / Acadience (Dibels) Testing
• Tue: Reading Diagnostic / Acadience (Dibels) Testing / Picture Day
• Wed: Reading Diagnostic
• Fri: Spirit Shirts, Early Release at 1:00
• (No School Next Monday, Sept. 6 – Labor Day)

Announcements:  Picture Day is Tuesday. Students must be in uniforms. See info below. We have been working on our math diagnostic this past week and should be finishing it up on Monday. We will start our reading diagnostic on Tuesday. This diagnostic usually takes us 2 to 3 days. Dibels testing will start this week. Please have your child read out loud to you for at least 5 minutes a night.

Reading at home: **Your student will be bringing home 2 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. *

Reading in Class

• The essential question is: “How do friends depend on each other?“
• Comprehension Strategy and Skill: Visualize to find the key details in a story
• Spelling Pattern: Words with short a and i. For example: has, wag, bad, six, will, sat, had, fix, him, if, can, hit
• High Frequency words: why, for, help
• Our Vocabulary words are: actions, afraid, depend, nervously, peered, perfectly, rescue, secret

• Math in Class
• This week we will be learning how to make a ten to add and subtract.

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 brings home 2 decodables each Friday. 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. *