Special points of interest:

Parent Conferences

Accelerated Reader

Reminders

Raffle

Gl a d s to n e E lem e nta r y

September 30- October 3,

2019

Parent Conferences

I enjoyed our conferences this week! I really appreci-ate having the time to get to know everyone a little bit better and learning more about my little friends! Please feel free to email or call me if you have any concerns about your child. Your child is very important to me and anything you share or tell me about him/her is taken seriously. I look forward to the rest of our year together. :)

Accelerated Reader Update

So far, our class total for the number of words read is. . .

981,130!

Keep it up, Hive members!

You’re doing great! :)

Foundational Ski l ls

We officially started multiplication this week. Here are a few facts that we now know about it:

1. Multiplication is the same as repeated addition or skip counting.

2. Multiplication has equal groups.

3. Any number multiplied by one is always that number (1 X a = a, a X 1 = a) a = any number

4. Any number multiplied by zero is always zero ( 0 X a = 0, a X 0 = 0)

5. The “X” means groups of. So the first factor in a multiplication sentence tells us how many groups and the second factor tells us how many are in that group.

6. In a word problem, the word each means that we will need to multiply at least once.

7. You can change the order of the factors and the product/answer will always be the same. Just remember, that the number of groups and how many are in each group is different.

The first weeks of school we were focusing on VCCV words. We are now working on VCV words such as super, paper, and later. These are also very common and it’s important to have a strategy to read these words, too. Here is how it works:

1. Once we have determined that it is a VCV word, we say “first try before.” This means before the consonant.

2. Where’s the vowel? It’s at the end (of the syllable).

3. Long or short vowel sound? We always try long first.

4. Read the word by syllables.

*We will focus on VCV words with short vowel sounds next (Ex. metal). You can find a chart for the VCV strategy for both the long and short vowels on the Language Arts page of our class website.

Math

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We are still working toward collecting PTA memberships so that our class has 100% participation. If we do, we will have a special party.

Please continue signing and returning the neon blue progress notes.

October 25: Picture Make-Up Day (absences and “redo’s”)

October 31: Halloween Parade

November 1: Pupil Free Day

November 8: Last Day of Trimester 1

November 11: Veterans Day!

November 25-29: Thanksgiving Week

December 6: KidsCan & Spirit Day (Wear your pajamas.)

Reminders

Blount’s Busy Bee Bulletin

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Newsletter Raffle Question: Week of September 30, 2019

*Turn in this form on/before October 11, 2019.

Please answer in complete sentences with capitalization and punctuation.

Write on the back if you run out of room.

*Write a few sentences about what you did after school on our minimum days and/or on

Friday.

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