September News

Dates to Remember

  • September 6 Labor Day (No School)

  • September 7 Rosh Hashanah (No School)

  • September 16 Yom Kippur (No School)

  • October 11 Columbus Day (No School)

School-to-Home Connection

  • We are a team!

  • Please reach out at any time at petrikk@glastonburyus.org I would love to hear from you!

  • Seesaw is an app where students will post work and I will send snapshots of activities we are doing in the class. You can also message me via the app.

Classroom Update

This month we will all be learning the routines and getting to know one another. I am looking forward to a great year! Here are some highlights of the curriculum in each subject.

Math

This month we begin a long unit in which we will explore how the relationships between addition, subtraction, multiplication and division help us become more flexible and comfortable with numbers. During September, we will investigate place value to understand the value each digit represents. We will be discussing and learning about how it works as well as the “real world” applications. As a class, we will discover how we can solve the same problem in a variety of ways. We are working to establish a safe and comfortable learning community where each and every student feels comfortable to take risks, share their thinking, make mistakes and accept constructive criticism.

Reading:

The beginning of school is when we establish the routines of Reader’s Workshop. We are discussing how and why we choose books, the type of environment necessary for reading, as well as some general ways to share our thinking about books through conversations and writing.

Writing:

As in Reading, we are building a Writing Community. This month we will learn how writers generate ideas, as well as learn about the tools and the environment that a writer needs to work and grow as a writer. We will examine both the role of the teacher and the role of the student in Writing Workshop. Our first official unit will be a unit on Narrative Writing where your child will continue their work from previous years and learn to improve their ability to write a story.