September 29, 2014

We started our day with a very focused Daily 5 time.  We successfully engaged in 20 minutes of write to self, 20 minutes of read to self and 20 minutes of buddy reading.  Please remember that we have started our home reading program and students are expected to be reading 15-20 minutes everyday at home.  We are asking that the students please keep their home reading book in the home communication folder everyday so the book is at school when we have parent volunteers here to read with them.

Mrs. Cooper's class had a few moments to play a little math game while Ms. Rauser's class finished up some word work.  We played Around the World using a website on the Smartboard.  Some students were asking for the link so we are including it in today's blog.

http://www.missmaggie.org/scholastic/roundtheworld_eng_launcher.html

We are starting to work on number operations this week so students are encouraged to practice basic facts at home using the above link or Mathletics.  Math work is made easier for students when they know the basic facts.

The students spent time this afternoon, working on changing jot notes into sentences.  We are preparing the students to be able to make jot notes and then use these notes to create final projects that will be presented for their inquiry question.

In writing, we are finishing out final copies of our Getting To Know Me paragraphs.

We are beginning a new project on Wednesday which will involve a walk in the community to make observations to use visualization when writing about fall. We leave the school at 2:00 pm and return by 3:00 pm.