Welcome, fall! We are enjoying this season together.

There will be no school for students on Friday. Faculty will be attending a day of professional development sessions at LuHi in Brookville.

There will be a Dress Down Day on Thursday. Kindly place your child’s $5 in an envelope with his or her name on it.

There will be a math test on Tuesday on Module 4, Place Value. A spelling test will be given on Thursday.

Students did a terrific job of creating then-now posters for Social Studies and dinosaur projects and presentations for Science. Both will be graded as tests and displayed before they are sent home.

This week, we will be

• Learning about David and Solomon in Religion
• Exploring expository texts about families in Unit 1, Week 5 of our Wonders curriculum, reading decodable selections, mastering related vocabulary, and demonstrating our understanding of prefixes, syllables, phoneme isolation and categorization, words with short and long i sounds, possessives, compound and run-on sentences, sentence expansion, and synonyms in ELA.
• Taking a place value assessment and moving into Module 5, Read, Write, and Show Numbers to 1,000 in Math
• Analyzing where people live and the significance of the Statue of Liberty in Social Studies
• Tying our interest in pumpkins at this time of year to seed dispersal and plant growth in Science

Read-alouds will include the following:

• From Seed to Pumpkin
• The Berenstain Bears and the Prize Pumpkin
• Pumpkin Day, Pumpkin Night
• Umbrella

Specials will include Library, Art, SEL, PE, Spanish, and Music.  We will be attending Chapel on Wednesday. Your child will be provided with an offering envelope on Tuesday to take home.

May our precious Lord bless our week together,

Mrs. Nekota