September 14- October 2

Please remember that your child needs a 12" X 12" piece of cardboard to create their salt dough map of Arizona.  Students need to bring in their cardboard by Monday 9/21 so that we have time to get Arizona traced on them.  Students will then use them during class Tues.-Thurs. labeling them.  

FRIDAY SEPT. 25  we will be making our salt dough maps!  If you offered to make/bring in dough, please send it with your child to school Wed. Sept. 23.  Keep the dough refrigerated over night as it will spoil!  

If you would like to volunteer and help our class make their salt dough maps, everyone is welcome!  Our class will be making them on Friday Sept. 25 from 10:45am-11:20am. Please feel free to email me and let me know if you are able to make it! 

Language Arts:

• Book bags will continue to go home each week.  They are expected to return on Thursday will all the books and sight words if your child has them.  PLEASE have your child use a book bag book to complete his/her Reading Log each week.  
• We will continue to work on beginning and ending blends with 2-3 letters for phonics and spelling.
• Students will begin to make thoughtful connections to stories they are reading.  Students can make connections to events happening in the book or the way a character feels.  We will begin showing how we write and talk about those connections independently, in small groups, and whole class. 
• Students will continue to work on using correct language conventions consistently as well as begin their first personal narrative (small moment). They will go through the writing process and in time, publish their work on the computer.

Math

• Students will work on showing numbers in various ways (pictures, base 10 blocks, standard form, word form, and expanded form)
• Identify the value of each digit in 3 and 4 digit numbers
• Solve addition and subtraction word problems using different strategies and begin to explain their thinking, step by step, in writing.  
• We will begin our Geometry unit closer to the end of September

Social Studies

• We will finish up our geography unit with Arizona salt dough maps
• Compare and contrast urban and rural environments
• Identify our mayor, governor, and president