August 25 - 29

The first two days of school have gone smoothly.  We only had only one child that did not bring their homework folder back to school (that's awesome!).  Thanks for making sure it got back to school!
Here is what we will be working on this week in the English side:

• Comprehension strategy: check for understanding
• Comprehension strategy: back-up and reread
• The three things  needed to make a sentence: a capital letter at the beginning, punctuation at the end, and a complete thought (a noun and a verb)
• Nouns, verbs, and adjectives
• Words Their Way test to determine their spelling levels for word work
• We will begin working on our Daily 5 routines - focus on read to self this week
• Math Talk about 5

Here is what we will be working on in the Spanish side:

• Social Studies: community (people in the school)
• Math: working with 5 (bonds, composing/decomposing, counting by, etc)
• listening to stories and songs
• Comprehension strategy: check for understanding
• Comprehension strategy: back-up and reread