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Pennies for Paulding
You can wear your pajamas on Thursday, Nov. 9, if you bring in $1. The money raised will help support Pennies for Paulding. Lets try to get our whole class to participate. If your child participates, please make sure they are school appropriate pj's. Students should wear normal shoes - NO slippers or house shoes. 

Don't forget that it is super important that you practice reading books and sight words each night with your child! We are beginning to see the growth in the students who are doing this!! 


Time got away from me today and I completely forgot to send home new sight word lists. I have gone through and tested each child on all 220 sight words again to see how we are progressing. These for sure go home on Wednesday. 

Towers 101 Lego-based In-School Field Trip

A flyer will be going home Wednesday explaining our field trip on 11/17/17. This will be an exciting time where students will experience an opportunity to build a Lego Tower as a team. Please fill out the registration form and send in the $5 by the end of the week.

 

Reading/Social Studies

This week we are learning about Thomas Jefferson and all he did for the United States. We will be reading non-fiction books and talking about the text features the books have. 

Writing

Students finished their informational pumpkin writings last week!! They turned out so stinkin' cute! I am so impressed with how they have taken on informational writing this week! We also did our October writing for the writing portfolios you will receive at the end of the year. 
This week we will be writing a writing piece on Thomas Jefferson together to guide students in the informational writing process.

Language Arts

We are working on sorting words into categories, pronouns and making sure we are adding capital letters when they are needed. 

Math

Each of your kiddos has done an amazing job with word problems so far!! It is a lot of work expected for each problem, but they are SO proud of themselves when they have completed the entire problem. We took an assessment on addition and subtraction word problems Monday and jumped right into addition word problems involving 3 numbers. We talked about trying to make a group of 10. If your problem was 7 + 2 + 3, students should add the 7 + 3 first. This will make it easier to solve the problem. We are also starting to understand subtraction as an (Thomas Jefferson) unknown - addend problem and adding 3 numbers. Ask your child to explain a strategy they know how to use when adding three numbers. 

Nov. 7 - Teacher workday! NO SCHOOL

Nov. 9 - Pajama day for $1
Nov. 10 - Veteran's Day Assembly
Nov. 14 - News You Can Use 8:15 am/6:15 pm
Nov. 17 - Spirit Day. Wear your Hiram attire 
Nov. 20 - 24 - Thanksgiving break! NO SCHOOL