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Happy Thanksgiving!

Nov 13th

Please make sure you read the “Take Home Books” if you are signed up for them and return them each day. Many of the students are forgetting their library books on Thursday. I am proud of each student and the progress they are making. We finished the unit on arrays, odd/even, and skip counting. There are a few students who did not pass with 90% so I will continue to work with them.

Nov 6th

We are almost ready for our math test. One more day of good reviewing and we will be able to take our test on odd and evens, skip counting by 2’s, 5’s and 10’s and number arrays. We have been writing Thanksgiving poems and sequencing in reading. We have a new way to make reading time fun. We turn our chairs upside sown and lean against them. They are just a little hard so if the students want they can use their coats or a small blanket/pillow to put under them. I told the students the pillows or blankets have to fit in their backpack and be taken home every night. They need to be clean.  We are almost finished with our moon unit.

Thank You

Thanks to Mrs. Marshall who shared her puppets and read us fun Halloween Stories and to Mrs. Evans and Mrs. Beck for having 3 fun games and spider cookies to make. It was a fun Halloween. All the children looked so cute in their costumes.

Halloween

Thanks for all the pumpkin seeds. We counted by 2’s, 5’s and 10’s with them. I had the students mark up their Halloween stories looking for capital letters, key words, characters, settings, character traits, nouns and adjectives. They were graded this week on how they followed directions when we were finding these items and marking them with different colors of crayons. We have been studying skip counting, arrays and odd and evens in Math. We will be reviewing this week and hopefully taking a test soon. We are still working on the moon and observable things in the night sky unit in Science. In reading we have been working on taking notes on sequencing in reading to build our comprehension.

Oct. 23

We have had a fun week with RED RIBBON WEEK. Lots of crazy hair and funny socks.  We are in the middle of our MOON studies. This week we copied a Summary that the class wrote and the students corrected them on their own. In math we are going to start our unit on skip counting and odd and evens on Monday. We are hard at work trying to get our Halloween stories finished. I am excited to see all the students Halloween Costumes.

Friday, Oct. 16th

We took our first math test and the class did pretty good. Those students who did not get 90% or higher I will work with until they can pass the test. We have wrote our first draft of our Halloween stories. In reading we have been doing some drama activities to help us build comprehension. We acted out the story as Mrs. Kitchen read it. We did an activity called "Hole on the Wall" where 3 students layed down on a butcher sheet and we drew them. Then we wrote down what activities were taking place. The last activity we did was taking two of the characters and practicing the dialogue that would transpire at the end of the story between them. We finished our unit on maps and we will be moving on to the MOON.