Happy Labor Day!

 
I hope my students and their families are enjoying this long weekend as our nation celebrates Labor Day on Monday!

Third Grade-
  The students did a great job skip counting by 2's. We are now learning to count by 3's to 30. This skill will prepare us to learn our multiplication facts.  Please encourage your child to practice this at home. As we begin learning about estimation, we will continue to practice reading numbers in the ten thousands. We also read a great story titled A Place for Zero. The children enjoyed this book as they learned the importance of zero in place value.
  In Language Arts we read a story titled Carla's Corner. It was about a girl who wanted a room of her own. We wrote a response to literature as we described a special room we'd like to have. Our vowel pattern of the week is the sound of short e. We completed a word ladder as we manipulated letter tiles to build words with different vowel patterns.

Second Grade-
 We will continue to work with short vowel patterns as we read and spell words containing the sound of
short 'o' . The children will be making a 'clock' book of short 'o' words. As we read our various guided reading books, we discuss the story elements, such as characters, setting, problem, and solution within a fiction reading passage. Our next book we'll read is The Gingerbread Man. We can't wait!
  In Math we will continue to work on number sense as we also move onto addition of two digit numbers. We will use base 10 models to trade ones for tens.

First Grade-
 We are working on the addition facts through the sum of 10. We will continue to practice counting by fives's and using manipulatives to better understand the value of numbers.
 Our vowel pattern is the sound of short 'i' in three letter words.  We will make an inchworm word slide of short 'i' words. As we read our leveled readers, we are searching for vocabulary words and sight words within our stories.