Hello!

What an exciting week we have had! Two friends lost a tooth, we had our first fire drill of the school year and we had curriculum night.

We are having some WiFi troubles today so there will not be any pictures posted. They are not loading. Sorry about that! I will add this week's pictures to next week's blog.

Thank you all for coming to curriculum night. The support our class has is outstanding! If you missed it, please check your child's red folder. You have homework! ;) We placed the directions for your parent homework in the folder along with a packet we gave out last night. We need every parent to write a message on white paper with a white crayon. The kids will water color over it and reveal the secret message! We want every child to have a special note. Please see the important dates I announced as well.

Handwriting Without Tears Workshop: This is for parents only! September 14th 9:30 am-10:30 am and 7:00 pm- 8:00 pm.  This is a great workshop so please attend if you can!

October 11th- 4:00-8:00 School Festival and Kickball Tournament

October 21st- Fairy tale Ball

October 28th- Parade of Fiction

Scholastic: Orders will be due soon so get them in this weekend! This is a great way to get your child excited about reading while also earning points for our class to purchase more books for our class library. The kids were so excited to go "shopping" in the flyer that was passed out this week.

Math Workshop:

We played two new games.

1. Rollin, Rollin, Rollin: Roll two dice and add them together. Cross off the sum. The last person to cross off a number wins! It gets tricky at the end with one number left.

2 Connect Four: Roll two dice and all the numbers. Place your color marker on the sum. The first player to get 4 in a row wins!

Reader's Workshop:

This week we introduced partner reading and the listening center. We should finally be ready to introduce guided reading groups after Labor Day. My reading assessments are officially finished and all my groups are made. :)

Thematic Unit:

This week we rotated through 4 centers revolving around soccer! We studied Mia Hamm and learned she was the youngest player to help win a World Cup! We noticed that all the famous athletes we have studied have overcome obstacles.

1. Learn and practice how to do a header, score a goal, dribble and pass the soccer ball. Illustrate the new vocabulary terms.
2. Make a page for our class Soccer Rules book.
3. Illustrate the Mia Hamm fact book.
4. Create a soccer ball using hexagons and a round circle plate. Math is everywhere!

Have a great long weekend!

Emily Schultz