Hello! It was so great to meet/see all of you at conferences yesterday and today. It's so nice to touch base with all of you! If you were not able to complete the survey that was handed to you at conferences, please complete it, and bring it to the C. R. Hanna office at your convenience. We are planning to use these surveys to see what areas we are doing well in, and what areas we could improve in. Thank you for taking the time to fill it out! I noticed that most of the apples on my wish list were taken! Wow! Your generosity is appreciated!

Multiplication:
We have started learning our multiplication facts. We have learned the 0's, 1's, and 2's so far. We will be learning our 10's and 3's next week. Mastering the 10's should be fairly easy for the students since they already understand the multiplying by 1 rule. The 3's will be our first set of multiplication facts that could be difficult to master. Please make sure your child is practicing for a few minutes each night. If you need any suggestions about how to study these facts, please do not hesitate to contact me. I am more than happy to help with that.

The Week Ahead
English: We will complete our noun unit! The test will not be until next week. I will send a note home at the end of the week with details about when the test will be, and what pages to study.
Math: As mentioned above, we will learn our multiplying by 10 and multiplying by 3 facts. We will also learn to conduct a survey, draw and read a pictograph, identify place value to hundreds, write three-digit numbers in expanded form, add two-digit numbers using mental computation, name line segments, identify and make isosceles, scalene, and equilateral triangles, and identify a missing digit in an addition problem.
Reading: My reading class will be reading an adorable story called, Little Grunt and the Big Egg.We will also learn and discuss the oi and oy spelling pattern, cause and effect, and fact and opinion.
Social Studies: We will learn that communities are in different places, and that communities are built near water.
Science: We will start a unit on rainforests.

I hope everyone is enjoying the long weekend. Again, it was great to see all of you at conferences! Please e-mail if you have any questions or concerns at bcalcott@orionschools.us.