Oct. 19th

Reading:This week in Model Reading the students watched as I modeled  how to write a complete summary for a fiction text. We used the book "The Crayon Box That Could Talk". In Shared Reading we worked on finding the main ideas in nonfiction text.  We used our Trailblazer Newspaper that talked about using safe science tools and the National Geographic article called the "Big Sting".  In Guided Reading we worked on using Table of Contents and Index to answer questions along with finding details.  In Independent reading we worked on asking questions and relating things we already know to our books.
Writing:  We published our Scary Halloween stories by putting them up in the hall, highlighting all the adjectives, and decorating them.
Spelling and Word Work we worked on the long O sound using the CVCe pattern.
Math:  We took  three test: Review of everything we have learned this year, Fact Families, and a pre test on ODD and EVEN numbers.  We did an activity were we took of all our shoes and put them in pairs to see if they were odd or even.  Then we took beans and put them in groups of 2 and counted different numbers to see if they were odd or even.
 Social Studies:  We had our North America picnic of hot dogs, apple pie, tortilla chips, and lemonade. We took our passports and wrote 3 things that we learned about the continent of North America.  Then we got it stamped.  Last of all this week we made of post card of a place we visited in North America and started to color our puppets of children dressed in native outfits.

We had a fabulous week!