<p>Dear Parents, WEEKLY FOCUS SKILLS Things are going great in our classroom! Our routines are becoming easier and they Reading: Unit 1 Week 5 students are doing a better job of transitioning Genre: Expository Text from one thing to the next. This is always a little hard at the beginning of the year! Spelling: Short and Long i Thank you for all you do! 1. did 11. cape Miss Stanley 2. fin 12. made 3. pick 13. all 4. line 14. any UPCOMING EVENTS 5. pipe 15. says Sept. 22: School Pictures (new date!!) 6. tip Sept. 28: NO SCHOOL/Teacher Inservice 7. mix 8. five 9. side 10. hike School Pictures are Tuesday!!! I only have one child’s picture packet. All students will take school pictures in the fall, but you Go to www.spellingcity.com/kelliedstanley to don’t have to order them. If you are planning on practice your spelling words!! ordering pictures, we need the packet to school on picture day. Vocabulary Words: check, choose, chores, cost, customers, jobs, spend, tools AR Levels Vocabulary Strategy: Inflectional Endings All but two students have taken the STAR test Comprehension Strategy: Ask and Answer on Accelerated Reader. For some reason the school Questions doesn’t have enough licenses for all of the students Comprehension Skill: Key Details that take that test. We are in the process of getting Writing Traits: Sentence Fluency more. If you look at the bottom of the back page of Grammar: Expanding and Combining your child’s reading log, you will see their book Sentences level and AR level. I have part of my book cart that Grammar Mechanics: Quotation Marks has just a book level (9-28) and then the other part of my book cart has all of the books grouped by AR Math: Finishing Comparing Numbers and level. Students can check out books in either Will be Starting 10 more/less and 100 category. They do have more choices if they check more/less out an AR book so most students are doing that. If your child’s log is blank in that section, then your Science: Starting Next Week child is one of the two that haven’t taken the STAR test yet. I apologize for that! Mrs. Frazey is Social Studies: Studies Weekly are still not working on it. here!! We will start as soon as they arrive! Water Bottles…reminder Many students have brought water bottles to school. I do encourage all students to bring a water Headphones…reminder bottle to school even though the temperature is When we do iPads in our classroom it is cooling off (I think…geesh when is fall going to get difficult to hear at times. It is so important to be here?). We don’t always have time to stop for able to hear, especially during Lexia time. I drinks, but if students have a water bottle they can encourage the students to bring headphones or ear get a drink whenever they need one. buds. They are the only one who will use them. </p>