Homecoming!!!

Welcome to our first full week of school.  It's Homecoming after all.  We have so many things going on this week.  Let's start with our dress up days to go with supporting our High-School Homecoming:

Monday- Hat Day
Tuesday- Dress like your favorite teacher day
Wednesday- Pajama Day
Thursday- Rock Star Day
Friday- Dragon Pride Day and Parade at 1:30

Last week we took our STAR Reading assessment.  This gave us a specific reading range our students can use to pick good fit books.  This week we will use this reading range to chose an AR goal.  This is a goal that they want to hit for AR points each quarter.

            In Reading this week we will be learning 5 strategies to become better readers; Check for Understanding, Cross Check, Tune Into Interesting Words, Back Up and Reread, and Choose an appropriate level book. We will also continue to build our stamina in reading.
            In Writing, we will begin our Writers' Workshop with learning about what it looks like and sounds like.  We will be also working on reviewing sentence structures, nouns, and verbs.
             In Social Studies, we will study resolving disputes, communities, the common good, and being a good citizen.
             In Math, we will go into reviewing days of the week, months, and right/left. Then we will go to learning about our B.U.I.L.D centers.  Finally, we will start to learn about Place Value to 1,000.