Happy Fall!
We are really getting into the swing of things as we progress through the year.
As a class, we are working on becoming active listeners. This is an important life skill, and we need to put a focus on hearing what others say and how to respond when we agree or disagree. To practice this skill, we are participating in listening activities during morning meeting and working in pairs and small groups.
In math, we are continuing to work on fractions. This week's lessons are adding and subtracting unlike fractions. I am looking at our first math test to be late next week.
For reading, we have started our first Book Club. For our first book, we are reading "The Homework Machine." We will be learning how to have a book talk with a small group as well as reading skills. Our skill focus this week will be Compare and Contrast.
For Social Studies, I am hoping to finish up our 3 Branches of Government this week and move into the election process. Our class will be in charge of holding a mock election for our school in November.
I have posted some helpful websites on the class website. These links will allow students to practice their spelling words, have extra math practice as well as math videos to help with those tricky concepts. I will be adding websites as I come across useful ones.
Friday is a busy day as students are able to wear their favorite hat on Friday to help fundraise for our Inclusive Playground, the PTO movie night showing "Zootopia" is at 6pm and the fundraiser kickoff will be this Friday, September 30th. Fundraiser packets will be sent home that day.
Also, book orders are due this Friday, September 30th. You can either send the paper form into me or order online. Our class code is P7Q33.
As always, please contact me with questions or comments you may have.
Have a great week!
Carley Luggar

Happy Monday!
The last two weeks have flown by!
We have quite a few things going on this week. Today, we will have a guest speaker from Shane's Inspiration to talk with us about the Paul Bunyan Inclusive playground. Tomorrow, we will go to the playground at 9:15. Please make sure to turn in permission slips if you haven't done so yet.
On Wednesday, we will have school pictures. Picture forms were sent home last week. If you did not receive one, please let me know.
Friday, we will have our annual health screening (hearing and vision).
We do have spelling this week and the words are located on the class website. Students will be given a paper copy in class as well.
In Math we are continuing to work on fractions. For reading we will start our first literature circle as a class. This will be done in class for the first round.
Let me know if you have any questions or concerns for this week!
Have a good one!
Mrs. Luggar

Happy Monday!
We are getting into the full swing of things this week. We are starting our math with fractions. My goal is to give students enough time in class to complete their work. Students will rarely have math work to bring home if they are on task while doing their work. There will be spelling this week as we start our first story. The spelling list is under the spelling tab on the class website. Students were also given a list to have in their desks. Our spelling tests will always be on Fridays. In Social Studies, we will be focusing on the Constitution and how it was created.
This week a few book orders were sent home. Our class code is P7Q33. You can either order online or send in the order form with money attached and I will send it in for you. The due date for this order is Friday, September 30th.
Have a great week!
Mrs. Luggar

Dear Parents:
I was happy to meet many of you at Orientation last week. I can’t believe school has already started, but I was ready to come back. I thought I would send out a letter to you to give you a heads-up on what to expect this year with your child in my classroom.
I plan to use a free phone App to communicate called Remind. It will be used to send mass reminders to parents of important events happening in the classroom, tests, quizzes and homework assignments.  I will send messages through this app and you will receive the message as a text. You will be able to send messages to me through this medium as well. The information is only viewed by me and no phone numbers are shared in this process. This is something new that I am trying out and I would like your feedback.
If you are interested in this app please follow these steps:
In your text messages,
enter this number: 81010
text this message: @mrslugga
You will then be asked to message your first and last name and asks you to respond if you are a student, parent or teacher. Finally, it will send you a link to install the app. You have the option of opted out of this at any time. If you have any questions please feel free to call or email me.
I know this was a lot of information, but I am hoping to find ways to best communicate with you as parents and get you the information you need. Please let me know if you have any questions. You can reach me at carley_luggar@bemidji.k12.mn.us or (218) 333-3240.
I look forward to working with you this school year!
Mrs. Luggar