Hopefully the students are starting to get into a little bit of a routine. Here is some important information for this week:
We will be starting our first story in our reading series. Unless it is a short week, we usually read the story on Wednesday and take the selection test on Thursday. Students will be receiving their spelling lists on Monday and the test will be on Friday. I will be providing the students a specific link to www.spellingcity.com which will provide them a program that allows them to study their spelling words on their own without the help of another person. I will be posting that link on my blog for all of the students to use.
Also, this week we are starting our math multiplication timings. Each day we will take a 1-minute multiplication timing. In order for the students to be successful this year in math it is very important they learn their multiplication facts. These are not for a grade but strictly practice. Aside from the multiplication timings, we will be continuing Topic 1. Just a reminder, if a student finishes his/her math homework at school and I check it and they have all of the problems correct, I will put a "check" next to their math homework in their assignment notebook to acknowledge to you that it has been completed and checked.
On Friday, our class will be holding our 1st Semester Student Council elections. We will be voting for 1 Boy and 1 Girl to represent our class. In order to run for student council, any student interested must give a short speech on why he/she would be the best person to represent our class. Any student that runs but is not elected may run again in December for our 2nd semester representatives. Student council meetings are held in the mornings before school at 7:30AM on the following dates:
September 10
September 24
October 8
October 22
November 5
November 19
December 3
December 17
Please consider the dates and times of the meetings. It is very important that if a student is selected they are able to make it to the meetings.
Here is this week's spelling review:
