Updates and Reminders
- Fall Party will be Friday, October 27 from 1:45-2:30. Everyone is invited to join in on the fun! Thank you to the parents who are busy planning and the parents who have volunteered to donate their time or items to make this party a success! If you would like to see the sign up genius, click here. Mrs. Godier has offered to bring in pumpkins for everyone in our class so each parent does not need to bring one. Thank you!
- October 20 : Parents and Principals from 8-9am.
- Mark your calendars for our Scholastic Book Fair. It will be open the week of Parent/Teacher Conferences (November 6-10).
- I try to send home snack reminders in Friday Folder the week before your snack week. If you ever need an additional reminder, please click here to see a schedule. The schedule stays the same each month. Thank you for helping out with snack! :)
Here is a recap on learning and fun last week!
We started our week off by participating in Makerspace. We were able to code
Ozobots in the library.
In Math, we were introduced to some brand new topics! We learned about change diagrams and how to make a number model. Examples of these are in this week's (Week 10) homework packet. Change diagrams really help students understand what is taking place during addition and subtraction. Students enjoyed making up their own stories to go along with the change diagrams too!
We aren't working on addition/subtraction sentences with these big numbers yet (while they are brand new to us) but here is a great example of a change diagram.
During writing, in addition to writing small moment stories, we have been learning about what it means to have a writer's eye. We have learned that we should see these four important things in our writing so it is an easy to read writing piece. Your student has set a goal to work hard at improving one of these in their writing. We set the goal based on their individual need!
During reading, we are adding strategies to our Reading Strategy Wall. Right now, these strategies are ways that we can figure out unknown words. Here is just one we added this week!
We started a new read aloud this week. We are enjoying getting to know Gooney Bird Greene. This story is great at character development and it's funny too!
We received our third CPS Zoo animal this week. So far we have had fresh water fish and a platypus.This week, we received a BIG box. We read these clues on the box and were able to make predictions based on the clues. Inside the box was an orca. We will continue to learn about the orca during week 10.
These kiddos worked hard this week to fill up a sticker chart. They were able to eat lunch with me in the classroom on Wednesday! Way to go!!
