Welcome, Parents!

It was great meeting you. I look forward to a working together. I put a blog video on your child's site: Spellingbreathingdragons.blogspot.com.

See links for the multiplication cards, book lists, and more on the right.

To clarify, this week and next we're reading about the Florida Bay (The water is becoming too salty, because the fresh water is being used in homes) Key Biscayne is our local bay! Bayside :)
We'll learn about: Habitats, Plants/wildlife, Food chain & Protection of Florida Bay.

Math:

• Addends, sum, difference
• Fact families
• Inverse operations (+/-)
• Regrouping
• Word (story) problems
• Place value and Value (ex: the place value of the 4 in 49 is tens. The value of 4 in '49' is 40)
• Estimating: Rounding & Compatible Numbers (counting by 25s)
• Properties of addition
• Mental Math

Content:

• Florida Bay
• Pledge, National Anthem, and Mission Statement words
• States/phases of matter
• 9/11 and the required reading of "14 Cows For America" (See ordering on the right)

Language Arts:

• Nouns
• Short /a/ and /i/ sound
• Writing

Thank you for sending in the $7.00!  The kids will love it. :)