We had a great start to our school year! 

Language Arts- This week began our first week into our regular language arts program.  We began our week reading a story called, "Bruno's New Home", which is a Fantasy.  This story focused on the essential question, "what can stories teach you?  In this story Bear was taught the important lesson that good friends can come in small packages, basically don't judge a book by it's cover.  We worked on locating text evidence, learned new vocabulary, talked about character traits and learned about visualizing a story.  This week we will close read the story, "Wolf"  and "Jennie and the Wolf" and continue to work with the same essential question and similar skills including the same vocabulary. 
We also having been working on writing in our weekend journals. 

Math- This week we will take our first test over topic 1, Understanding Multiplication and Division. We have been practicing different strategies to solve multiplication problems. We will be reviewing for the test Wednesday and Thursday and the test will be on Friday.  

Social Studies- We will be beginning on working with geography.   

This past week we took our first round of Math MAPS testing for the year.  Everybody worked hard.  This Wednesday we will being taking the reading portion of it. 

Please be sure to look through your child's folder each Friday when we send home papers from that week.  Please remind your children to charge their chrome books each night. 

Hope you had a great weekend.