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Reminders: Check your child’s homework folder daily and remove the papers from the keep at home side. Take a minute to review your child's work so that you can see what they completed in class.   Homework grades will begin this week. Grades are taken for completion, not accuracy.  

Important Dates: 

8/3- Homework club starts

8/7 - half day, all students are dismissed at noon

8/20 -Ice Cream Social, 6-7pm

8/28 - half day, dismissal at noon

9/2 and 9/3 - half day, teacher conferences. Invitations will be sent out via email soon. 

9/28-10/9 - Fall Break! 

10/12- School Resumes

Phonograms: o c a d f g s qu

Spelling Focus: segmenting and blending

Handwriting Focus: Identify top line, base line, and midpoint, short line, and tall line (penmanship grades begin in quarter 2)

General Rules for Manuscript Handwriting - 

• All letters sit on a baseline.

• For letters that begin at 2 on the clock, rounding conforms to the curve of the circle. Every round letter should fit on the same-size clock.

• Lines begin at top and are straight and parallel. All letters that go below the baseline to the same distance below the baseline as above it.

• Letters or parts of letters are of two sizes. They are either tall or short. Tall letters or tall parts approach but do not touch the line above. Short letters or short parts are half as high as tall letters. They begin at the midpoint between the height of a tall letter and the baseline. 

• Dots and crossbars are tiny, formed just above the midpoint; crossbars are formed in the direction in which we write.

Math: Module 2 - count and write number 0-5

Reading: Narrative text structure- characters, setting and plot. Reading directionality, front, back, title, author

Social Studies : What are rules?

Science: Science and Engineering Practices