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Upcoming Events
8-29 Fall Sports Display MHS
9-1 No School-Labor Day
9-3 Vision and Hearing Screenings
9-8 Fundraiser Assembly
9-24 Brea!ast "ith Mom
A Peek at Our Week
Reading: Lewis and Clark
We will be using this selection from the text to focus on
the following skills: Authors Purpose, Questioning, Word
endings, sensory words, and the suffixes er and or
Writing: Writing Project
!he weekly writing pro"ect will focus on expository
compositions# We will also focus on the con$entions of
%xclamatory and &mperati$e sentences#
Math: Engage NY Place Value
We are utili'ing %ngage () *odules as our bridge to the
+ommon +ore standards that each student is expected to
know# !his way of thinking about *ath allows students to
deeply understand concepts# !hat being said, you may
want to reference the website to better understand what
is being taught in class# engageny#org
Science/Social Studies:
We will begin trading for classes next week# & will
facilitate the ,cience and *rs# +alhoun will be taking care
of ,ocial ,tudies#
August 22nd
Mrs. Nietfeld
aniet!eld#usd$%%&com
Maize Elementary
(316) 722-8230
Weekly Words
Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it!
Bill Cosby
Notes from the Teacher:
-ur first few weeks ha$e been fantastic. /eminders0,pelling and 1ocab# +ontracts will come home each
2riday to ha$e the lists for the upcoming week# 0Agendas are to be filled out, signed, color coded for the clip
chart, and with e$ery student each day# 3
th
4rade is a year of gaining responsibility and agendas are a great
tool to teach and reinforce that skill#
Nietfeld News

Learnzillion
!his is a fabulous website that
pro$ides instructional $ideos that
reinforce *ath concepts# We will be
using it in class throughout the year,
but it is a great one to bookmark to
help out with homework#
5earn'illion#com
Website ho!case
mrsniet!eld&"eebly&com