Some reminders

1st family project due Friday! We will be taking a test on the Georgia geography information used for project, next Tuesday. Including border states, rivers and locations, regions and locations. Most of the kids have been doing well with this info in class.

Spelling test this Friday on "long and short vowel words". New list will be on spelling city beginning Friday night if you want to get a jump start on them this weekend.

No School next Monday in honor of Labor Day! 1st PTA meeting and Open House at HLES is next Thursday at 6:30. I will be handing out the 1st Butterfly Book Report poster at the meeting.

We are working on writing complete sentences in the "narrative writing" genre. The expectations on the kids' is that they:
1. Keep the same idea or topic throughout their writing.
2. Organize their events in order of when they happened in the story or real life.
3. Print legibly with clear letters and spaces, moving left to right and top to bottom across the page. (we should no longer be numbering the sentences unless its spelling or grammar homework)
4. Spell all Dolche words correctly and any previously taught spelling words within the story.
5. Begin to use interesting and different words when writing. "The black cat is fat." is not an interesting sentence, "the cat that is as dark as the night is so big he looks like he ate a football." is much more interesting!
5. The mechanics of each sentence should include appropriate capital letters and punctuation.

In math our focus is Place Value. We are breaking 3 digit numerals into Base Ten form, Word form, and Expanded Notation form. It looks like this: 693
[] [] [] [] [] [] ||||||||| xxx
[] = 100. | = 10 X = 1

Six hundred ninety-three

600+ 90+ 3




Don't forget that WORK on Razkids.com and spelling City can count as nightly reading time!


This post has been re-published 2 times, by mistakes all of my own doing!
I went to read comments made by Mrs McKinney and Mrs Nance but hit wrong tab and deleted them! Ooppps! I did see parts of your comments in an email though, it did work this tome RM.