Kennedy Chronicle
August 24, 2018
Upcoming Dates
14th - Family fun night and homecoming
20th - j
Jack-o’-Lantern Jack visit the classrooms
21st - no school - teacher conferences
22nd - Fall Festival
28th - Cougar Pride casual day
- end of the first-quarter
During the month of September we will be having a school wide Box Tops Drive. More information will be sent home soon.
A Peek Into Our Week
ELA- We have become experts at writing Personal Narritives and even “Published” our favorite one of the week. We have been practicing the procedures of our Literacy Centers and are excited to begin our Guided Reading Groups next week.
Math- Writing in our Math Journals and Math Talks really took a positive turn this week. We are learning to talk and write about Math concepts. We continued to focus on the difference between a number’s “digit” and “value” and the difference between the “sum” and “difference” in addition and subtraction equations. The children also worked on showing different ways to represent a number: Word form, standard form, expanded form, and base tens.
Bible - 0ur theme this week was Respect and we read, discussed, and acted out how David was respectful to King Saul. The children did a great job looking up 1 Samuel 26 and following along as we listened to the Bible app read the chapter. We are going to continue this theme next week, looking up and discussing several Bible verses that have to do with respect. Has your child shared our Thankful Thursdays with you? They made cards this week for someone they are thankful for and did an great job!
Yes, we have had an amazing and busy week of learning!
We will begin our individualized spelling next week. The students will be working on a list of words with patterns at their current spelling developmental level and also a list of high frequency words that they need to master . They will have a study buddy in the classroom that will help them with these words during the week.
EPIC and Prodigy
EPIC is an app that can be purchased (monthly fee) and the children can enjoy an endless supply of ebooks at their level. It’s kind of like having their own Kindle account.
Please let me know if you have any questions:)