Home Connection: Pleasebesurethatyourchildreadsforatleast1520minutesanight.

Themorethatyourchildreads,the
morefluentandaccuratereadertheywillbecome.Aftertheyread,pleasegototheclassblogandhaveyourchildentertheir
readingtimeonthereadinglogtab.Thanks!
Please visit the School
Blog for updates: http://
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sletter
September 14, 2014
Mr. Brians Class
Literacy
Students will be able to differentiate between fact and opinion in a text and explain why
the text is a fact or an opinion
Students will be able to write simple sentences using who, what, when, where, how,
and why to improve their writing skills.
Math
Students will begin to understand skip-counting patterns by 2, 5, and 10 to 100
Students will learn how to compile data and represent it in a graph
Dear Parents,
Our class is beginning to come together as a very strong community. They have been working
hard on understanding what it takes to make their classroom community strong. The class has
shown a tremendous amount of caring, cooperation, and tolerance. Here are some things we will
look at this week.
Unit
Central Idea: Citizens build communities.
-Learner Profile: Caring, Open-Minded
-Attitudes: Cooperation, Tolerance
-Skills: Self-Management, Social
Questions: 1. What makes a strong community? 2. How do choices contribute to a community? 3.
What is our responsibility as a citizen?
STAR OF THE WEEK
Thunayan
Al Ghanim
Please have your child answer the
questions of who, what, when,
where, how, and why this week
while reading.
none
Day 1 Library Day
Please
bring I-Pad
device to
school this
week.
Home Connection: : Please make sure that your child is reading daily. After reading, please ask your child the
questions of who, what, when, where, how, and why about the story. Our class blog has a section for helpful ques-
tions about reading. Also, please see the Reading Log portion of the blog and have your child fill in their information.
It should not take longer than a couple of minutes or so to fill in. Thank you for all of your support!
Please visit the School
Blog for updates: http://
aispyp.wordpress.com/
W
eekly N
ew
sletter
September 14, 2014
Mr. Brians Class
Literacy
Students will be able to ask and answer questions such as who, what, when, where,
how, and why to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
Students will be able to write simple sentences using who, what, when, where, how,
and why to improve their writing skills.
Math
Students will demonstrate understanding of math concepts
Students will begin to understand that the three digits of a three-digit number repre-
sent the amounts of hundreds, tens, and ones
Dear Parents,
We had a very successful week one last week. Your children are busy learning about how to treat
one another within our community. They created their class rules and are well on their way to
understanding communities and how they function successfully.
Unit
-Learner Profile: Caring, Open-Minded
-Attitudes: Cooperation, Tolerance
How We Organize Ourselves Central Idea: Citizens build communities.
-The three questions that will be able to be answered as a result of our study of the unit are:
1. What makes a strong community? 2. How do choices contribute to a commu-
nity? 3. What is your responsibility as a citizen?
STAR OF THE WEEK
Abdulaziz
Al Sabah
Please have your child answer the
questions of who, what, when,
where, how, and why this week
while reading.
Musk
Day 1 Library Day
Please
bring I-Pad
device to
school this
week.