Labor Day

Happy Labor Day! Hope everyone is relaxing and preparing for our short week ahead. Four days, still packing it all in. Here's what we have happening for our week ahead:

Math:  We will be finishing up addition word problems. The students will be learning how to solve problems with missing addends (ex: 5 + ____ =  8). We will continue to work on writing all answers in number bonds and number sentences. We are also learning how to solve problems with math drawings (simple shapes to represent our objects in our stories) and to make sure our drawings show the parts we know in our stories clearly. 

ELA:  We will be working on the short o sound this week, which will give us the chance to read the fiction story, "The Dot." We will incorporate a fun Dot art project with this story as well. We will also learn to how to do Work on Writing during Daily 5 (which we did not get to do last week). This week we will also begin our daily grammar lessons with Mrs. Perkins. She will be coming into our classroom everyday Monday-Thursday and be doing a 30 minute grammar lesson with the whole class. These lessons are designed to help us improve reading, reading comprehension, and writing skills. 

Social Studies:  We are still studying Ancient Mesopotamia. The students enjoyed our mapping activity where they colored the two rivers that surround Ancient Mesopotamia (The Tigris and The Euphrates) and colored in the land that was Ancient Mesopotamia (which means "land between two rivers"). This week we will learn more about the clothing of the Mesopotamians, and their Ziggurats. If time allows we will also learn about their writing and try our hand at writing our name in Cuneiform.

Volunteering at School:  The first PTO meeting of the year is this Wednesday in the library at 4:30. The PTO is a fun and easy way to get involved in your child's schooling here at Marshall. The meetings are held the first Wednesday of every month from 4:30-5:30 and free child care is always available. I know this is a great way for you to hear first hand what is happening here at school and that you can help in what you can, no pressure to do more than that! If you would like to see what our amazing PTO is all about make plans to stop in Wednesday for their first meeting, they would love to see you there! 

If you are more interested in volunteering in the classroom that would be great as well. I am in search of someone to help grade rocket math (20 minutes daily). If you would like to come in and help in some other capacity, reach out and we can make it happen! Thank you!

Suzuki Violin:  Suzuki Violin starts back up this week. This is our amazing partnership with NAU where all Marshall students, K-2 receive free Suzuki violin lessons twice a week here at school. This is such an amazing, one of a kind program and we are so excited to be offering it to our students once again!

I hope everyone is rested and ready for our week ahead!       -Ms. Shaw