Dear Parents,                                                             October 30, 2011

We will be finishing up theme 3 in our reading series this week.  Our reading strategy is “questioning”.  Before reading a story, we look at the cover, the title and the pictures and make a prediction about what the story will be about.  While making our predictions, we ask ourselves questions.  The comprehension skill that will help us with this reading strategy is categorizing.  Grouping things together will help us answer our questions and help us understand the story.  Our phonics focus this week is words with ‘r’ clusters and contractions with ‘s.  Our grammar focus this week will concentrate on the action part of sentences.  This week, our spelling words are from unit 13 – clusters with r.  We continue with learning different strategies for adding and subtracting in math.  In religion, we are learning what makes us children of God and in science we continue to wrap up our study of animals.

On Monday we will have an assembly to showcase our musical talents with Mr. Doswell! You are welcome to join us! The assembly will be held at 1:45 in The Hall.

Please remind your child to bring their library book to school on Tuesday so that they may check out a new one.

Water bottle sales continue on Tuesday and Thursday.  Thank you for your support!

The Saints Parade is Friday.  Join us for 8:30 mass, the presentation of our saints, and the parade around the field.  It is a day not to be missed!  Please make sure to practice the three-sentence report with your child every night.

If you have any questions or concerns, please let me know.  Have a wonderful week!

~Miss Manning