September 20th Newsletter

Upcoming Dates:

Wednesday, September 25th - FIELD TRIP to the Toledo Zoo
Friday, September 27th - Midterms sent home
Monday, September 30th - Picture Day
October 10th-13th - Book Fair
Thursday, October 10th - Spaghetti Supper

This week in class

Math - subtraction concepts; counting up to subtract, fact families, and missing addends

Reading - long e spelled ea and ee; statements and questions; final consonant digraphs (ch, sh, th); setting

Science - Finished discussing kinds of animals such as mammals and reptiles; life cycles of a butterfly and frogs

Health - Continued to discuss systems of the body (digestive, respiratory, circulatory, and nervous)

Social Studies - Citizenship and Constitution 

Spelling - words adding es or s

boys       girls

streets    lunches

dishes     boxes

rooms      lions

nights      peaches

wishes      foxes

*words are on www.spellingcity.com/ellerbrock

Leaders Farm

Continue to read 15 books to receive free admission to the MAiZe at Leaders Farm.  If your child reads 15 books and returns the reading log sent home with this newsletter, they will receive a free admission to the MAiZe  along with a free order of CinnaSquares from Marco's Pizza.  Please sign the reading log when your child completes it and return it to me.

Book Adventure

We began reading books for book adventure.  Your child is encouraged to read books and then check their comprehension by completing an online test.  There is no grade taken on these tests, it is clearly to monitor the progress your child makes when it comes to reading comprehension.  On the front of their assignment pad is the website along with their username and password so they can also do this at home.

Pop Tabs

Continue to bring in pop tabs!!

Field Trip

We have room on the bus for 2 chaperones per class.  The remaining chaperones will have to drive to the zoo; perhaps carpool.  Here is the list of chaperones:

Rina Belmares

Jane Engel - Rachel Greenlaw's Aunt

Anne Irving - will have Baby Ella

Maria Pullen - will have Rosa

Cathy Smith 

Laura Storch

Andera De la Roca

IF YOU HAVE A ZOO PASS PLEASE BRING IT TO SCHOOL ON MONDAY SO THAT I CAN MAKE SURE EVERYONE IS ACCOUNTED FOR WITH PAYMENT.