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