HI!

What a short but busy week of learning we had!  We earned 5 compliments but we still need to vote on our reward. I will keep you posted on what we vote on.  It shouldn't involve anything from home since it is a "little" reward for 5.  Some of the choices they wanted to vote on include 5 minutes of drawing time, extra reading time, take off our shoes day and 5 minutes of extra recess.  We will see which activity gets the most votes!

Here is our week of learning at a glance:

Reading Workshop-This week we will begin looking at character traits using books from Kevin Henkes.  We will learn that character traits describe a character on the inside ( shy, outgoing, nervous, sad) and not their physical description.   We will use what we learned and respond using our Reading Response Notebook.

Writing Workshop-   We will continue to focus on Writer's workshop expectations and we will begin writing our first story.  Last week we focused on our reader's response so this took up some of our writing time.  

Science/ Social Studies-   This week we will use our iPads to tour a science lab and we will begin working on physical properties of an object.   Please have your child bring in a small object from home! This object could be  a special shell, rock,  coin, or trophy. Have fun with it!  We will describe our object using physical properties.

In social studies, we will continue to  focus on good citizenship at home and in the classroom.  

Math-   We will begin to look at numbers on a hundreds chart and a number line.  We spent all last week working on 4 ways to write a number.  If you have a few minutes this weekend, ask your child to show you how to write numbers ( up to 99) in these four ways.

Standard form:  45

Expanded form: 40+5=45

Word form:  forty-five

Base 10 blocks:  IIII . . . . .  

Important News:   Thanks for having your child wear purple or green on Friday!  We had 72% in spirit colors so we are keeping our fingers crossed we won the spirit stick!  If you have an extra set of earbuds around your house, please send them in with your child for our iPads. I will keep them in  ziplock bag with your child's name on it so they will not get worn by anyone else. I have bought some extra ones just in case as well.  We have a few programs that read books to us or that have videos we can watch so the earbuds will come in handy.  

Class Celebrations:    Evin lost a tooth this week and we were able to add him name to our tooth graph!  It was nice to see many of you on Grandparent's Day. That day is always special to the kids.  

I hope you have a great weekend!

Mrs.King