Theme for the Week of September 22 – Tall Tales (Pecos Bill)

Don’t forget our Fabulous Friday Assemblies each week. Your child should be here by 7:45.

September 29 – First Day for Lunch Guests 

September 30 – Education Foundation Dinner

October 2 – PTA Meeting

October 9 – Report Cards

October 13-16 – Field Trip to Wet Pets & Critters

October 14 – Fall Picture Retakes

October 22 or 23 – Field Trip to Brookshire’s Wildlife Museum and Planetarium

November 7 – Jan Brett visits Hasting’s in Longview

Visit her website at www.janbrett.com for more info.

Monday - Thursday each week:

· Complete math homework.

· Study math facts.

· Complete language homework.

· Study/write/read vocabulary words as needed.

· Study/write/read spelling words as needed.

· Read library book and record in red folder.

Friday:

·spelling and sentence dictation test

Homework and news specifically for the week of September 29:

· math homework – pgs. 21-22

· math facts – +5

· language homework – adjectives

· spelling words

truck	he	slap	lab
I	we	go	cub
dock	hot	lift	elf
sand	him	rat	be
sack	tip	brim	test

Bonus: chew

· vocabulary words

legend	locomotive
fiction	competition
healthy	determination
twister	compassion
sequence	tool

Unit 1 Week 5 Vocabulary words and meanings include: compassion (showing mercy and caring for one another), competition (a contest between two individuals), determination (to have a firm mind set that never gives up), legend (a person well-known for acts of greatness), locomotive (a train engine), fiction (a story that is not true), sequence (to arrange events or steps in the correct order), tool (an instrument or object used to do a task), twister (a tornado), and healthy (something that is good for you).

Homework is important because it reinforces skills taught in class. It helps students develop good study habits and become more responsible for their learning.

Thank you for sharing your child with me!

Email: csmith@springhill.esc7.net