HI!

What a short but busy week of learning we had!  We have  earned 21 compliments so we celebrated with extra recess AND stuffed animal day! Please keep encouraging this great behavior at home. As we are becoming more comfortable with our class "family" I have noticed  more talking between transitions and in the hallway. If your child loses DOJO points for talking, please just reinforce how other classes and friends are still working and need their quiet thinking time.  Other than that, our classroom routines are running smoothly and we even were able to get through all 4 of our math rotations last week!  WOW! 

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 begin to look at the importance of our Constitution in honor of Constitution Day on Sunday.  

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,  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 . . . . .  

I will teach the game Guess my Number in math.  This will also be on the homework this week!  Given any number from 10-100, one player picks a number (for example, 35). They write it down on a piece of paper and then they hid it.  Player 2 asks questions which can only be answered with yes or no.   For example:

1. Is your number even?

2.  Does your number have 4 tens?

3.  Is your number less than 50?

4.  Is your number greater than 30?

The player that guesses crosses out numbers on a hundreds chart after asking the questions to narrow down the numbers.  Continue playing until player 2 guesses the correct number.  Then switch roles. 

Important News:    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:    AJ  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 week!

Mrs.King