Reminders:*Beginning Band Parent Meeting on Wednesday at 7:30.
*Parts of a Flower Quiz on Thursday.
*Parts of a Flower Quiz on Thursday.
*Band Recruitment Concert on Friday at 12:30.
*Lesson 2 Spelling Pretest on Friday.
*Arboretum field trip will be on Monday, September 17.
English:
We will continue our unit on Capitalization and Punctuation. Our lessons will cover names of people and pets, names of places and things, and abbreviations.
Reading:The students will continue practicing the use of the self-monitoring strategy while they are reading. This strategy begins with making a prediction, reading, and finally proving or disproving their prediction. We will also continue our picture book study this week. We will finish reviewing picture book structures and begin types of illustrations found in picture books. Next week the children will begin writing their own picture book.
Science: 
As botanists we will continue our study of plants. This week we will dissect a flower to find the sepals, petals, pistil, and stamen. The children will be taking a quiz on the parts of a flower on Thursday. We will also learn about the processes of pollination and fertilization. We will finish the week by exploring the life cycle of a bean plant.
Social Studies: We will begin the week by reviewing our Patriotic Quest from last week. The rest of the week our focus will be on our constitutional rights and responsibilities as U.S. citizens. Our test on the "Living in the United States" theme will be during the week of September 17.
Math (for my math students only):
We will continue our study of place value this week. On Monday, we will review place value to the millions. We need your help by working with your child on reading numbers to the hundred millions place. On Tuesday, we will work on number patterns. The children will be learning about Wubbles (oh, they can be trouble). On Wednesday and Thursday, our focus will be rounding to the nearest 10, 100, or 1,000. We will finish the week with a checkpoint review. Our Place Value test will be on Wednesday, September 19.
I would like to thank all the families who have donated items to the classroom. If there is anything else our classroom needs I will list those items in our weekly blog.
Website of the week:
Check out what we will see at the Arboretum.
