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