Newsletter -- September 27 - October 1, 2010

**STUDENT OF THE WEEK: Marlee Grace Simpson


**READING/SPELLING 
Day One - Monday - New story, "Tara and Tyree."  Family Times and new Spelling Unit 2 list can be found in the apple binder. 
Day Two - Tuesday - Read story at home and practice Spelling words--- Every night!!
Day Three - Wednesday -  Continue to read story with an adult at home.
Day Four -  Selection Test online and written questions.  ***Written questions will now count as part of the grade, and students will be required to write complete sentences.  The teacher will provide a "sentence starter," and students will complete the sentence.


**LANGUAGE/HANDWRITING
We are learning about nouns, which tell us about a person, place, thing, or animal.

**MATH
We will study fact families, skip counting, ordering numbers, odd/even numbers and missing addends.
Continue to work on addition and subtraction facts!

**SOCIAL SCIENCE
Students are learning about their ancestors, and will share interesting facts on Friday.  "My Ancestors" report will be completed at home with parents, and returned on Friday.  We are trying to find out more about the people in our families and what kinds of hardships they may have been through.



*NEWS FOR PARENTS
Report cards come out soon...  More information coming.


*We will see the play, “Peter Pan” in December! Please send $25.00 attached to the permission form as soon as possible. Money needs to be turned in by Oct. 11th.