Week of September 17, 2012

Hello Room 4 Families!
We had a great second week!
Important dates this week:
~Back-to-School Night is this Wednesday September 19th at 6:15
Mrs. Egan will do an information session on the blacktop at 6:15, and the session in room 4 will begin after that. I will go over my procedures, curricula, expectations, etc.
This week in Language Arts we are continuing our unit on School. The kids are learning about school helpers, like our principal and office manager. We are beginning to go through each letter of the alphabet: each day we read a poem in our Alphabet Big Book and practice forming a new letter on wipe boards. We have also begun to work on our first writing project, an autobiography. As we work on this I am introducing the phases of the writing process: getting ideas/brainstorming, prewriting, drafting, revising, proofreading, and publishing.

This week in math we will finish our first chapter on sorting and classifying. This week's objectives are to show equal groups, to identify a group with more, and to identify a group with less. The kids will take their first chapter test at the end of the week.

We are beginning Social Studies this week. Our first unit is titled Learning to Work Together, and in it we will be learning all about how friends get along.

Thank you to those parents who volunteered to help with our centers time during the first hour of class. This will begin this week. The kids have been practicing how to move from center to center and they are anxious to have parents in the room helping with new activities!
If I did not contact you about helping with centers and it is something you would like to do, we do need a couple more helpers on Wednesdays and Thursdays. Please email me or let me know in person!

Our classroom is in need of painting/art smocks! If anyone has anything we can use as smocks, we would love to have them. Old button-down shirts work great because the kids can put them on backwards on their own.
Please email me if you have any questions or concerns.
 carrie-relles@scusd.edu

Thanks for reading! Have a great week!