Book Orders Due Tomorrow

Remember that the book orders are due on Tuesday September 20th. You can fill them out and send them to class with a check made out to Scholastic Book Clubs or order online. If you order online we receive $3.00 in an account which I can use to buy books for the classroom.

Field Trip
The District cannot process all of the fingerprinting as fast as they thought they could. To go on the field trip with us on Oct. 7th you need to fill out the District Volunteer form and return it to our school. Fingerprinting before the Field Trip will not be required.

The complete process will follow these steps. After the Principal signs the forms the form will be sent back to the individual and they will need to take it to the District Offices for fingerprinting. Then a list of those who's background checks have been completed will be sent back to the school.

Spelling
This week's spelling words are words with consonant blends. Help your child practice blending the sounds but realizing that they still hear both sounds and that the words are spelled with both letters in the blend.

I am sending home their center time work papers tomorrow. These have Work Completion score on them. Each child was to complete 4 assignments during this time. They may have done more but this is all that was turned in. They need to do the work and file it in their spelling folder. That folder is turned in on Thursday with their Spelling Test and all Center Work Papers.

Vocabulary
This week's words come from the book "Six Dinner Sid." The words are: damp, suspicious, gullible, versatile, nasty, and one other one I can't remember right now. I will put it in when I get to school in the morning.

Math
I hope you are enjoying playing the math games that have been sent home. I will also soon send home some math facts cards. I will send these home one week and they will be tested in class on them the following week. Each week I will send home more sets of math facts which use a specific strategy to help the child solve them. Keep practicing these every night please.

Science
We are studying rocks. The Rock Cycle teaches about the formation of the three main types of rocks: Sedimentary Rocks, Metamorphic Rocks and Igneous Rocks. We also talk about how rocks are broken down into smaller rocks and eventually into sediment through the processes of weathering and erosion. Next week we will explore the many uses of rocks.

Keyword: "Rock On!"