The following supplies will be provided for each student: notebooks, folders, composition books, pencil boxes, colored pens, erasable pens, Expo markers, rulers, glue sticks, crayons, and scissors. Please do not send any markers to school with your child.

Part of the students' weekly homework is to read a book at their Lexile level and respond to their reading in their reading journals. The entire process, reading and answering questions, should still take 2 hours each week. Students need to answer 2 different questions each week and turn their reading journals in to me every Friday. They have a 399 point Lexile range: 100 points below their score, at their level and up to 200 points above their Lexile score. For example, if your child's Lexile score is 620, they can read any book in the 500's, 600's, 700's, or 800's. Students are welcome to borrow any of our classroom library books, which are already Lexiled, or they can Lexile their own books using the website http://www.lexile.com. Students may also use their Fountas & Pinnell level to help them find a just write book.  Students need to be reading high interest, engaging books that they are able to read independently.  Levels are in place to help them find a book that is in their "just right" range, but is should not prevent them from reading a book they are interested in, if they can access the text.