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Text Box: September 5 Labor Day Schools and Offices Closed 6-9 Bench Mark Tests for grades 3-6 12 - 20 Each fifth grade class will attend Hard Bar gain Farm for two days and one night. Chuck E. Cheese Night at CAP Blvd Text Box: 11:00 am dismissal for students. Membership drive for PTA ends—Please j oin! Teacher In-service Allenwood Fundrais er begins — YUMMY CAKES, COOKIES October Interim Progress Reports Released Text Box: 5 Box tops for Educa- tion Drive Begins Individual School Pictures School Closed for Yom Kippur (remember to send the students to school on FRI DAY!) Chuck E. Cheese Night 21 School Closed for MSTA Convention Text Box: Challenge: Come up with a rhyme for single digit math facts such as addition, subtraction, multiplication or division. Place it in my box outside my door along with the name of the song or rhythm that it should be recited to. The best one will be published in our next newsletter. Text Box: Having difficulty remembering those basic math facts? Instead of writing them over and over again, try putting a little rhyme into it. Studies have shown that when our brains connect things to patterns such as rhymes, it can be absorbed quicker and stored into your long term memory. Don't believe me? Just think about it. Remember your favorite song from long ago? Can you still recite all the words? How about a cheer you did as a child? It may take a little creativity but once you come up with a rhyme that works, use it. Then maybe recite it to the rhythm of your favorite song. Mrs. Kornegay Text Box: Text Box: Calendar for September and October Text Box: Math Highlights Text Box: Reading Ideas from the Reading Specialists Text Box: When reading aloud to your child model your own thinking about the story. Encourage your child to: Notice your thinking when you read, Talk out loud about the book Share his/her thinking about the book Make connections with or about the book Question parts of the book Text Box: Developing Strategic Readers One of the goals of Prince George’s County Public Schools and especially Allenwood Elementary School is to develop Strategic Readers. We are hoping that our children will use the strategies they are being taught to think about their reading in ways that enhance their understanding and learning. Text Box: READ! READ! READ! READ!

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·          Infer  about what the author has written

·          Summarize what was read.

 

     These strategies will lead to a better understanding of the text being read.

 

      When you visit the classrooms watch the teachers model these aspects of strategic reading.

 

                       Mrs. Mason

                       Ms. Topper