September (11:15 release Friday)

It has been such a great pleasure to meet so many new panthers in primary this year, and September is set to be a very busy month! This month our themes are school days, marvelous me, the U.S. Constitution, and all about apples! All primary students have been set up with an Xtramath.com account, and It’s good to see that students are completing their sessions daily. Please make sure this is done as part of the regular homework routine, just like reading every night for 20 minutes. Our overarching goals for math this month are counting, reading and writing numbers through 120, comparing two two-digit numbers based on an understanding of place value and increasing mental math abilities in the base 10 system. Be sure to look for unit subtest being sent home weekly in the Tuesday folders. We have also started our guided reading groups, and this month we are focusing on decoding, encoding and determining the main idea of a passage. We will celebrate Johnny Appleseed’s birthday on September 26, and we will visit Millstone Creek Orchard for our first field trip on September 21. We will send out permission slips and volunteer opportunities soon. 

REMINDERS: Friday is early release, our class gets released at 11:15 - This is earlier than the upper grades! 
No school Monday- Happy Labor Day! 
Happy Birthday to Levi and Morghen this month!