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Super delicious

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THANKS
Thank you for supplying goodies for our Fall Festival celebration: Abigail’s Mom, Shawn’s family, Adam’s family, Everett’s family, Hassan’s Family. They were delicious!
WKCE TESTING BEGINS MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2012 FOR SOME OF MY STUDENTS IN ROOM 101W.OUR SCHEDULE HAS CHANGED NOW: it is AS FOLLOWS for the others: TUESDAY,OCTOBER 30-AM,WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31-AM, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1-AM, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6-AM. THE FOCUS WILL BE ON READING ON THESE DAYS.TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6-AM, WEDNEDAY, NOVEMBER 7-AM, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8-AM-THE FOCUS WILL BE MATH ON THESE DATES. Please encourage your child to do their best, sleep and eat well, and come to school ready to learn.
MATH: 

·         Practiced addition and subtraction regrouping two and three digits numbers

·         Rounding to the nearest ten

·         Story problems using addition and subtraction, showing work and verbally explaining.

On Tuesdays, we will have MM test on fluency of subtraction. Fridays’ MM test will be addition or multiplication depending where your child is. They will need to complete both addition/multiplication and subtraction as Homework over the weekend.  Please look at our Mitchell Blog under library to find many web sites that focus on math skills.
READING: 

·         Students read government inquiry books and wrote down facts of new learning.

·         Students read a practice story for WKCE and answered questions. We worked on eliminating answers, key vocabulary to look for, and how to write paragraph about main ideas and supporting them with details from the story

WRITING:

• Worked on revising our rough drafts on topic: First Day of School
• Review Contractions

INQUIRY:

• Worked on note taking
• Used computer lab to explore where to find topics about government
• Shared out new learning

NEWS UPDATES: 

• Keep bringing to school box tops, Campbell’s soup labels, etc...
• November 1-PTA Food Drive

Flat Stanley with Kassidy

Flat Stanley with Everett

Flat Stanley with Emiliano

Exciting News
Our third grade class led our Fish Assembly on Friday. All students made announcements individually or with a group. A special thank you to Rane and Emiliano for sharing their writing with the school. WE had many stories to share, but the mile run announcement of names did not allow us time to have more students read. WE WERE ROCK STARS FOR A MORNING!

WKCE TESTING BEGINS MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2012 FOR SOME OF MY STUDENTS IN ROOM 101W.OUR SCHEDULE IS AS FOLLOWS for the others: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31-AM, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1-AM, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5-AM. THE FOCUS WILL BE ON READING ON THESE DAYS.TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6-AM, WEDNEDAY, NOVEMBER 7-AM, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8-AM-THE FOCUS WILL BE MATH ON THESE DATES. Please encourage your child to do their best, sleep and eat well, and come to school ready to learn.
MATH: 

·         Practiced addition and subtraction regrouping two and three digits numbers

·         Rounding to the nearest ten

·         Story problems using addition and subtraction, showing work and verbally explaining.

On Tuesdays, we will have MM test on fluency of subtraction. Fridays’ MM test will be addition or multiplication depending where your child is. They will need to complete both addition/multiplication and subtraction as Homework over the weekend.  Please look at our Mitchell Blog under library to find many web sites that focus on math skills. 
READING: 

·         Students made an anchor chart on what to do when meaning breaks down as they read.

·         I modeled and they came up with fix-up strategies.

·         They read to identify main ideas and make predictions in their GR books..

WRITING:

• Using the 5 W’s to add details to stories(who, why, when, where, what)
• Worked on prewriting and rough drafts on topic: First Day of School
• Review Contractions
• INQUIRY:
• Students brainstormed list of resources to use when inquiring about new topics
• Worked on note taking
• Used computer lab to explore where to find topics about governmentNEWS UPDATES: 
• October 24-Halloween Dance 6-8pm
• Keep bringing to school box tops, Campbell’s soup labels, etc...
• NO SCHOOL for students on Thursday and Friday (25^th and 26^th)
• November 1-PTA Food Drive
• Wednesday, October 24 -2^nd and 3^rd will participate in Fall Activities with Mrs. Hart, Mrs. Germain, and Mrs. Franz’s classes.

Flat Stanley Visits with Vance, Polina, and Hasson's Family!!

MATH:  On Tuesdays, we will have MM test on fluency of subtraction. Fridays’ MM test will be addition or multiplication depending where your child is. They will need to complete both addition/multiplication and subtraction as Homework over the weekend. We worked on subtracting two and three digits numbers. Please look at our Mitchell Blog under library to find many web sites that focus on math skills.
READING:  Flat Stanley came home with your child. He is to write down his adventures with your family. This project is due on Wednesday, October 17, 2012. Have FUN!
GUIDED READING ROTATIONS:  Students are working on predictions, analyzing text, and making connections to their own life.

WRITING: We continue to work on main ideas and supporting them with details that follow their topic. We are reviewing that every sentence needs a capital letter to begin sentence and an end mark. Students wrote to friends in the classroom. We are patiently waiting for our pen pals to write to us from Texas.

INQUIRY: Who came up with Pokémon and why? Research completely on the computer.

NEWS UPDATES:  

THANK YOU FAMILIES FOR COMING TO CONFERENCES! I enjoyed meeting with you and loved updating you on the progress of your child. Let us keep up this communication.

October 24-Halloween Dance 6-8pm

Keep bringing to school box tops, Campbell’s soup labels, etc...

If you look real closely, you may see the additional freckles on our face after we drank Freckle Juice.

MATH:  On Tuesdays, we will have MM test on fluency of subtraction. Fridays’ MM test will be addition or multiplication depending where your child is. They will need to complete both addition/multiplication and subtraction as Homework over the weekend. We worked on adding two and three digits numbers and their place values.
READING:  Students are listening to Flat Stanley and practicing accuracy of words they are not sure of by Flip / Flopping vowels. Trying short vowels then long vowels to figure out correct words. We began our Stephanie Harvey toolkit with our first lesson by reading How Many Days to America. We worked on monitoring our comprehension by listening to our inner conversations and paying attention to our thinking as we read. Students left tracks of their thinking: questions they had, connections, and feelings. (They marked these tracks with their post-its and have discussions whole group and in small groups.
GUIDED READING ROTATIONS:  Students are using post-its to leave tracks for discussion about the main ideas and questions they have.

WRITING: We continue to work on main ideas and supporting them with details that follow their topic. We are reviewing that every sentence needs a capital letter to begin sentence and an end mark.

NEWS UPDATES:  Conferences on Thursday, October 11, 2012 beginning at 3:45-8:30. Please be prompt because the allotted time is fifteen minutes. Please bring questions you have about your child.

October 24-Halloween Dance 6-8pm