We've made it through another week! Hopefully your child is adjusting to our routine and making that transition to spending the whole day at school.
This week there are a few things to be aware of.
Homework Folders
Homework is coming home today. There is spelling, making words, math, and reading books. These items need to be returned on Friday. Homework is a great way to start establishing responsibility with your children--if you can help motivate them to get it done and back on time, it will set up great patterns for them as they continue throughout their life.
With spelling being added, we have sentences we work on each week. My main focus on sentences is to remember capital letters at the beginning, spaces between words, and end marks. I also watch for if your child is spelling their word lists correctly.
Please let me know if you have questions or things don't make sense. You can contact me at school or by email.
Bookorders
I am sending home book orders today. Book orders are a great way for you to find books that your children would be interested in and get great deals at the same time. It also helps our class library with every item purchased! These book orders will be due back to me on Friday. I will accept them two ways--if you turn in the paper order forms to me, I'm asking that you send checks written to Scholastic to help me out with collecting money. The other way you can order books is online. Just follow these simple steps:
Go to:
www.scholastic.com/parentordering
Class User Name: missmerrittsclass
Password: Foothills
www.scholastic.com/parentordering
Class User Name: missmerrittsclass
Password: Foothills
Scholastic reminds us that ordering online through them is safe and secure. But, if you feel more comfortable sending it through me--that is great as well!
Please return these by Friday!
Grading System
By now you've probably seen some different grading marks on your children's work. If there is a star or smiley face, that means I've seen the work. It's great! If there is a check mark--this is where you will want to know my code. The students are aware of this and I will be using this on our sentences for spelling later this week.
Please return these by Friday!
Grading System
By now you've probably seen some different grading marks on your children's work. If there is a star or smiley face, that means I've seen the work. It's great! If there is a check mark--this is where you will want to know my code. The students are aware of this and I will be using this on our sentences for spelling later this week.
check ++: means it's perfect (or looks like a 2nd graders work!)
it also means on spelling that your child has written the sentence perfect with no mistakes.
check +: means good job! (just how it should be!)
on spelling, this also means that they remembered everything they needed to
--capitals, spaces, end marks
check: means that they did it, they tried. There is still room for improvement.
check minus: no attempt was made
it also means on spelling that your child has written the sentence perfect with no mistakes.
check +: means good job! (just how it should be!)
on spelling, this also means that they remembered everything they needed to
--capitals, spaces, end marks
check: means that they did it, they tried. There is still room for improvement.
check minus: no attempt was made
If you have questions on how I do this, please let me know!
Color Days
We are finishing up our color days this week. Here's the schedule:
Monday: purple
Tuesday: black and white
Wednesday: brown
Thursday: pink
Friday: rainbow
Have a great week and let me know if there are any questions!
Miss Merritt
Color Days
We are finishing up our color days this week. Here's the schedule:
Monday: purple
Tuesday: black and white
Wednesday: brown
Thursday: pink
Friday: rainbow
Have a great week and let me know if there are any questions!
Miss Merritt
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