Update from Ms. Luria and Homework

Important Dates:

Homework is due next Friday: This week's homework - your child was also given a copy

September 
Monday, 15th - All About Me poster is due
Monday, 15th - 2:00 September birthday celebration
Wednesday 17th - Late start
Thursday 18th - Back to School night

Dear Families,

Thank you for a wonderful second week of school. This week we started our IB unit on "How we organize ourselves." For this unit we are learning all about money, the history or money and different types of money. Students are vary curious about this. Some of their questions this week are:

• How is money created?
• What did people use before money?
• Why don't people walk around with gems and gold instead of money?
• Who designs the money we use in the United States and how do they learn to do that?
• Why do different countries use different types of money?

Thank you to everyone who brought in international money for us to investigate. We will be using it in the next few weeks! 

Back to School Night - Please mark your calendar and come. This is when you will learn about the classroom, have opportunities to sign up to volunteer in the classroom and sign up for your fall conference! 

This week's focus:

Reading-

*We finished all of our reading assessments!

*We read a story called "Boom Town" for our IB unit.

*We learned about identifying the big problem in a story.

Writing-

*Reviewed all about nouns, verbs, articles and adjectives! 

*Started changing around our nouns, verbs and adjectives in our writing.               

Math-

*Baseline assessments

*Creating bar graphs

*Measurement - talking about how mathematicians measure and what we use to measure length, weight, time and capacity. 

Social Studies-

*Dollars and cents- talked about what we know about money and asked questions about what we would like to learn in this unit! 
*Students worked on their All About Me poster. These are all due on Monday the 15th. They had four days to work on them at school and were to complete them at home (if they did not finish at school.) 

Important note: Please wear gym clothes on Fridays.

Have a wonderful weekend!