October 8 - 12

Reading - We are reading A Nut Falls, Plants Can't Jump and Cornfield Leaves.  We are working on the short u, high frequency words (be,does, food, grow, live, many), details in stories, initial blends with r and nouns (animals or things). 
Your child will be bringing their reader home Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

Math - We will be doing lessons 3.5 to 3.8.  These lessons include vertical subtraction, understanding equality, modeling part-part-whole and subtracting to compare.  We will review those lessons on Friday.  We will continue with timed tests this week.

Writing - We will be writing about firefighters as it is Fire Safety Week, write to Miss Childers, Nouns/Lists/Organizations and draw and write a turtle.

Handwriting - We will work on ?!, tall and short letters and Cc.

Phonics - TH, ng and ing, ed, ee

Spelling - Pre-Test Wednesday Post-Test Friday

1. us
2. bus
3. must
4. cut
5. cub
6. club
7. with
8. then
9. don't
10. says
11. brown
12. pink

We will be using directions in social studies and studying x-rays and skeletons!

I will be gone on Friday and Mrs. Gaskill will be in charge.  She will send home everything she can but the tests will not go home as normal.

Keep reading :) Some of us are on track while others need to be reading!

4 points by October 31.