Good Afternoon,

This week:

Writing:

• We continued personal narratives
• Writers learned to Dreaming the Dream of the story
• Editing for punctuation, complete sentences, and fluency
• Telling the story from the INSIDE – the perspective of the character in the story

Reading:

• Writing well about reading
• Building stamina
• Chooses just right books
• Scholastic News – Hawaii Lava and its impact

Science

• Observing salt crystals that we created from evaporating salt water
• Develop a procedure to separate a dry mixture of salt, powder and gravel.

Math

• By Monday, you should have received an email from your child’s math teacher.

Genius Hour

• A wonderful opportunity to foster curious minds.
• Ask your child what they researched…some were quite interesting!

Tie Dye

• We will be tie dying our t-shirts on Thursday, September 13 at 8:00 am.
• Let me know if you can volunteer.
• Thanks for the $5 contribution toward the cost of the shirts and dye.

Zones of Regulation

• This year we are working on helping each child to have a visual representation of their emotions.
• We are developing ways to understand, recognize, monitor, and control our responses to what we feel.

Instagram Postings

• Here is the link to our private classroom Instagram. https://www.instagram.com/mrs_dawkins_class/ 
• If you have a name that I might not recognize, please let me know so I will accept your request.
• I’ll be posting our Crazy Hair soon!