The Great American Fundraiser is underway. Students brought home their fundraiser packets this past Tuesday.
There will be no school on Friday, September 22 due to teacher professional development.
Scholastic Book Order Forms for September will come home next week. If you would like to place an order, please return the order forms with a check payment to Scholastic by September 27th. No cash please. You can also place the order directly online using the class code on the back of the forms. I am looking for a parent volunteer who would be interested in helping with separating and dating book orders for me once a month. Please send me an email if you would like to help out. Thank you!
Class Updates:
I was inspired by one of the generosity of one of the students in class who decided to give the gift of books to our classroom library to celebrate her birthday. For my birthday this week, the students were able to open presents! The class received two Connect 4 games that will come in handy for indoor recess days.
In math, we have been learning about strategies to help us subtract, including counting back to subtract and doubles facts. The students have been using some fun technology including the Prodigy website and QR code scavenger hunts with the iPads to review what they have learned. We have now started to move into the third part of Chapter 1, which emphasizes the relationship between addition and subtraction. Fact families and two-step word problems will be the focus of next week. We will cover lessons 11-13.
For reading, the children have been working hard to read with fluency and expression. We are also learning the importance of stopping to think while we read to check for understanding. We have been reading Katie Woo Has the Flu to help us with our strategies.
The kids have been very busy during writing workshop! Students have picked a small moment story to write a personal narrative about. They learned to plan out their stories across their fingers and then across the pages. Some students also sketched out their ideas first to help them begin writing. Next, we used the mentor text, Owl Moon, to learn how authors write with description and all five senses. The children are revising to add descriptive details into their pieces. To help get inspiration for adding small details, the students worked with their writing partners to examine shells and rocks with magnifying glasses. Now, they are attempting to use the same approach to "zoom in" on their stories and add tiny details to bring their stories to life.
All students should have new spelling words in their green folders. Test dates are marked at the top of the spelling lists. Please note that the Friday spelling group will be testing on Monday, September 25th due to school being closed on Friday the 22nd.
We have wrapped up the first two lessons in social studies about communities. The students used what they learned about urban, rural, and suburban communities to make a graphic organizer to visually compare and contrast the three types. Next week, we will shift to science for a few weeks. Our first unit will cover earth science.
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