Newsletter #9

Dear Families,

Well, we are beginning the last week of Trimester 1! I can’t believe how fast the first trimester has flown by! Please encourage your child to reach their AR goal by Friday, as that is the cutoff day. They will take the STAR test again this week to see how they are progressing with reading and to set a new ZPD level and goal for the 2nd Trimester.

Sunrise’s 1st Spirit Rally! …

Tomorrow is the first spirit rally of the year! Please have your child wear their spirit wear and line up in the morning as usual. Teachers will pick their classes up from the red dots on the playground and take them to the quad for the rally. Parents are welcome to stay for the fun!

Learning this week…

Math: The students will review Topic 3 on Monday and do a practice test Monday night for homework. They will take the Topic 3 Assessment on Tuesday. We will begin Topic 4 on Wednesday, which focuses on using multiplication facts to divide. For an overview of Topic 4, click here. It is very important that students are memorizing multiplication facts in order to be successful on Topic 4.

Reading: Wonders: Unit 1 Week 5. If you would like to know the skills being taught, please click here.

Art: Hispanic Heritage Month is September 15th – October 15th. Sunrise will be honoring Hispanic Heritage through artistic expression. In the next couple of weeks, we will complete one art project by Ines Alvidres and one Amate Bark Painting.

Science: We will continue learning about animal adaptations.

Writing: We will continue working on sentence writing; learning about simple and compound sentences. We will begin learning the structure of an informational paragraph.