We have completed the first week and the students have done a tremendous job learning the classroom expectations and remembering some of the common school-wide expectations for behavior. You should have seen a folder come home this past Friday with some papers and your child's conduct grade for the week. Continue to look for this folder each Friday with their conduct grade, important papers and any comments for the school week. Planners are still not in, they will be coming soon. We have also been spending a lot of time on baseline assessments last week, so you did not see any homework coming home. You should begin to see homework this week.
Math
We have begun working in our first Module of Duval Math. Students are working with learning how to understand our base ten number system. This will transfer over to working with the standard addition and subtraction algorithm later in the module. The parent letter that went home the first day of school along with examples on the actual homework paper should give some insight into how the problems should be completed. Students are to come out with the basic understanding that each place value is 10 times as much as the place value to the right. For example, 1 hundred is 10 times as much as 1 ten. Or 10 x 1 ten = 10 tens = 100.
Science
We will begin chapter one in the science book which starts students off studying the process of science. This is another way of saying the scientific method. Students will learn how scientists learn about the natural world. We will begin discussing the science fair projects they will complete as big part of their first and into their second nine weeks grade. Look for vocabulary cards to come home to be studied and completed.
Dates to Remember
Early dismissal.....................August 31
Labor Day No School...........Sept. 5
Open House...........................Sept. 8 from 6:30-7:30 p.m.
Until next time,
R. O'Steen
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