Monday we will be having our Veteran's Day Assembly at 9:15. We are looking forward to honoring our friends and family members who have served our country.
Wednesday will be an early release day. Dismissal will be at 1:40. Please make sure to send a note with your child if they are going home a different way than usual.
Class Updates:
We had many visitors in our building this week from the Rams organization and the Edward Jones Dome. Volunteers came into each classroom to work with students on making cards for military service members and veterans. Our class completed an amazing 225 cards! We also were excited to have Rampage, the Rams mascot stop by.
In math, we are working on our speed and accuracy with multiplication and division facts through the twelves. The students are learning about arrays as a way to visually represent multiplication and division problems and multiplication table patterns. This week will will focus on fact families. Multiplication.com is a great website for students to play games at home while practicing their facts. Here are a few completed Great Graphing Project Posters from our last unit:
In reading, we have learned two additional ways to write summaries, including a "Who, Wanted, But, So" summary. Students are starting new books in their guided reading groups and will be practicing writing summaries throughout the week. As we look at summarizing non-fiction books, the children will also begin to sharpen their skills at determining the main idea and important details of what they read. The class will be writing book recommendations of their favorite books to place in a classroom display where children can look for ideas to help them pick out their next good read.
We learned about homophones all week for spelling. Students will now be trying to transfer their knowledge of homophone pairs into their writing workshop pieces. I am happy to report we have finished our realistic fiction unit and we celebrated by sharing out writing in small groups on Friday. Groups then decided together to award each member of their group with a certificate of achievement related to one of our areas of focus for the unit, such as "Leadership with Leads". We did not quite have enough time to complete our readings and awards, so we will finish this up on Monday. Pictures to come!
We will begin Chapter 3 in social studies this week, which focuses on the first people to live in Missouri and the surrounding area, including mound builders and Native American tribes.
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