School Picture Day is Tuesday 9/22

Two Room K-3 students read Dinosaur Rock together during Partnership Reading.

Wow, last week was an excellent one in Room K-3, please thank your students for all of their hard work.

Curriculum Night
It was wonderful seeing so many of you at Curriculum Night.  My hope is that this website will keep you updated on our curriculum as the school year continues.

Parent/Teacher Conferences
The kindergarten team will be holding Parent/Teacher conferences on Tuesday, October 20th and Thursday, October 22nd.  Please sign up for a time slot here.

STEAM Project on Weather Beginning This Week
This week we are beginning a unit where students will learn about and track the weather.  We will be reading and writing about weather and creating graphs in math that track the kinds of weather we experience here in Ann Arbor.  As the unit continues we will watch how different types of weather creates seasons.  We will also create weather tracking tools and study how weather causes problems for characters in fiction books. 

School Picture Day
Picture day is tomorrow, Tuesday, September 22nd.  An information sheet went home in student folders today.

Walk To School Day
Walk to School Day is Wednesday, October 7th.  This is a great day to get some family exercise first thing in the morning.  This flyer has more information.

Library Books
Last Thursday Room K-3 students were able to check out a book from the A2 STEAM Media Lab.  Please bring that book back to school this Wednesday or Thursday.  The books will be returned to the Media Lab so your children can choose a new one.

This Week’s Curriculum Overview

Science - We are studying what it means to be a scientist and a meteorologist.  We will begin learning about and tracking the weather.

Math - Our primary focus right now is being able to count and build quantities to 12.  We will also begin to see how numbers and information are represented in graphs, including weather graphs.

Literacy - We are reading books to learn about different types of weather.

Writing - Students are using pictures, letters, and words to tell stories from their lives.

Word Study - We are studying the letter K, as well as well as words that will help our writing: 'me', 'the', ‘to’, 'went’, ‘like’, and ’saw’.