• The fundraiser will begin in a couple of weeks. Please be on the lookout for the packet of information that your student will bring hme. We would appreciate your support.
• Forms will be coming home tomorrow, Monday. You will find the packet with which you are already accustom. The new items this year will include enrollment in K12 as the online payment system.

Reading/Writing

Over the first three weeks of school we will setup our reading and writing workshop. During reading workshop of the day, students will read from their own books focusing on the strategies developing during instruction that week. We will also meet in small groups to improve upon the skills most needed for each group. While during our writing portion we will develop "seeds" or ideas for topics to elaborate on later within our personal narrative unit.

For now, we will establish procedures for choosing appropriate books, increasing reading stamina, and reflecting on our independent reading.

Math

Our first math topics are factors and multiples. This starts a review of multiplying and dividing two-digit numbers over the next several weeks. If any students have not mastered their multiplication facts, studying them is highly recommended. Not only do they make simple multiplication and division easier, but they will eliminate obstacles to adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing fractions which are coming up this year.

Science

We will be studying Earth's relative postition in space. How the rotation of Earth causes day and night, the moon's monthly orbit around Earth and the relative position of the sun and the moon.