1st Week of School: August 15th-19th

Welcome back!  We are so excited to start this year with you!  The blog will be updated weekly and we hope you find it useful.

This week we will focus on rituals and routines and will begin to dive into the curriculum.

Academics:

ELA:
Are you ready for a fabulous year of reading and writing?  I know I am! Here is some info. to get you going!

REQUIREMENT! HAVE A CHAPTER BOOK WITH YOU AT ALL TIMES! :)
You will be reading in the hallway before school, reading independently in the classroom, and completing a Reader's Response Journal as one of your "work jobs" for the week. 
I have a large class library for you to check out books if you do not have one of your own already.  

This week we will be setting up our 3 journals and we will learn the procedures for using them in the classroom.

We will be completing Achieve 3000 testing on Thursday and I-ready will follow for some students.  I will be introducing our Achieve 3000 incentive program and we will begin using the program as soon as the level set testing is complete!

We will also begin working with our reading and writing  curriculum.  

Read At Home Logs will be assigned on Thursday and collected next Thursday.  This will be the only homework for ELA.


Math:  We will begin the year by discussing place value.  Students will begin to have homework this week.  In math, they can expect nightly homework, except for on Friday.



Science: We will be discussing the characteristics of a scientist.  We will discuss the tools they use and the different types of scientists.



Resources:
Tiberio:
Tuesday- Art/Media
Friday- Music

Ray:
Wednesday- Art/Media