Welcome Back!

Hello Everyone! Welcome back to MKG for another great school year. I look forward to meeting everyone at open house, but feel free to email me if you'd like to talk sooner! I also want to thank you all for turning in the necessary back-to-school forms so quickly and sending your children in with so many school supplies- it is greatly appreciated!


Reminders for the Week:

• Wear sneakers for Gym- Monday (day 1) & Thursday (day 4)
• Read 25 mins. each night 
• *Record in agenda daily: 
• Title of Book, Author, Pages Read w/ parent initials

• Daily math sheet (due the next day)
• Return School Forms 
• "Parents as Partners" Form

Learning this Week:
Writing: Students will be setting goals for year, organizing their writer's notebook, and reflect by completing a quick write. We will be reading the book, Only One You and writing about our uniqueness.

Math: Students will set up their Envision, XtraMath, and Prodigy accounts. We will review expectations for each of these programs in addition to expectations for math centers and games. We will begin our placement test and start Topic 1 (Generalize Place Value Understanding). 

ELA: We will discuss and read different texts concerning 9/11. We will complete a main idea organizer and read multiple picture books. In addition, we will finish our chapter read aloud, I Survived: 9/11.

S.S/Sci: Students will login to DiscoveryEd and we will explore the online program together. We will set up our science notebooks and explore the questions, "What is science?" and "What is the scientific method?"