Week of 9-24

This week in reading, the children will read The Cricket in Times Square and take a comprehension test over it. We will also work on the skill of making judgments while reading. The children checked out nonfiction books as well, and we will do a reading response activity with them. Nonfiction books are great for increasing vocabulary! In spelling we will cover long and short u's. We learned what idioms are today and did an activity with "Who let the cat out of the bag?" We will also talk more about idioms on Thursday, and do another activity with some common idioms. Ask your child what an idiom is. In math this week, we will work on telling time, time terminology, and elapsed time. In social studies today, we talked about the Native Americans being displaced and the Homestead Act. The children also made tipis. Also this week in social studies, we will talk in more detail about the land run, and Oklahoma's statehood.

The new long term project is an easy one. I know you are thinking yeah! We are going to publish a class book celebrating Oklahoma's centennial! I want each child to find one important piece of Oklahoma trivia or fact. This fact is due on Monday of next week. Parents or grandparents, you have homework too! Please submit one favorite recipe from your family to add to our Oklahoma book. What I am going to do is: Have each child write his/her fact on a book page and have his/her parent/grandparent write the recipe on the bottom of that same page. I will do a page and send a copy of it home this week to show you. The book will be entitled Fun Facts and Food from Oklahoma. It will also have your child's illustrations in the book. It should hopefully turn out to be pretty special. Our class will receive one book to share, but books will be available for purchase. I will send home more information on that later.

I will be gone tomorrow, September 25, to a workshop in Edmond. I will explain the book project to the kids on Wednesday. If you have any questions, let me know! Happy trivia and recipe hunting!