The first full 5 day week held a lot of firsts for us!  Our first spelling homework packet went home, and most were returned on Friday. If you still have yours at home, please finish it up and get it back to me as soon as you can. The Unit 2 spelling packets will go home tomorrow, and are due back on (or before) Friday the 23rd.  We had our spelling test on Unit 1 words Friday, and everyone should feel pretty proud of themselves, they were all awesome spellers!

Our first enVision math test was on Friday as well. We finished up Topic 1 and will start on Topic 2 this week. In this topic, we will be continuing with multiplication, learning about factors and multiples of 2, 5 and 9 and 10.

I have been getting a lot of the Book Club sheets back, and there are a lot of students who are well on their way to earning free books! The more you read, the better a Reader you will be! Our goal is at least 20 minutes a night. 100 minutes = one sticker on their chart, and after 5 stickers they get to choose a book prize!  If you have any gently read books at home that your family is done with, I am always accepting donations for my book prize bin.
Students, if you don't have a Book Club form handy or run out of room, just keep track of your reading on regular paper.  There are always extra forms on the front table that you can bring home anytime. Every minute counts!

We will begin our science unit on plant and animal life cycles this week  We will be working in the dirt and putting our scientist hats on to do some science experiments and work in our science journals.
We will be writing about our predictions and noting observations, and may even get our hands a little muddy!  

I was able to catch up with most parents at Open House, it was nice to meet everyone and start to put some names with faces!  We had a great turn out, and lots of families stayed for dinner as well.

At the Open House there was a Parent-Teacher Conference sign-up available. If you were unable to come and sign up for your conference time then, I have sent that letter home with your child. Please be on the look out for it coming home in backpacks. When you receive it, please choose some times and dates that work for your family and get it back to me as soon as possible so we can set something up. I am trying to meet with all my families before interim reports go home on October 18.

Don't forget the Scholastic Book orders are due this week.  If you plan to order any books this month, please get them in!  As always, if you order online you can order anytime. Our class code is Q6QX2.

Have a great week!