The last Monday of September!

Thank you to the parents who were able to come with us on our walks this month.  The weather sure cooperated.

You will notice that there are 15 spelling words written in your child's agenda today.  As I explained to them,  the first 10 are the regular spelling words.  The last 5, however, are different in that during the test on Friday they will be able to look in their personal dictionaries or on the word wall to help them with the correct spelling.  We call these "No Excuse" words.  They may not necessarily have them memorized but they must know where to find them and spell correctly in all their writing, not just the test.  The other 10 are mostly phonetic so they should be able to sound them out or use their knowledge of word families to help.  There are no offical challenge words this week but feel free to make these "no excuse" words a challenge.  Can they spell them without looking?

Next week we will be making Stone Soup in the classroom.  Your child will come home with a vegetable to bring on Tuesday, October 7th to contribute to this soup.  More information will come later this week.  Thank you ahead of time for your help with this.

October Scholastic forms will come home on Wednesday.  Please have them back to me by next Tuesday, October 7th.

~Mrs. Neeve