Twentieth Day

Today we learned about traditions. We compared traditions of indigenous Australians to those of American indigenous cultures. We also briefly discussed the meaning and reasons for traditions. We read a rhyming text and created a modified flow chart for the story in order to retell the story in our own words. We created a Tree Map today which we use to categorize information about ourselves. We will later learn how to use this information to create sentences used to write our personal narrative.

In math we worked with parts of nine. Our math tests should be in our backpack.

Child ID pictures will be taken tomorrow. Elementary school pictures will be taken on Monday.

If you prefer to order your Scholastic books online, our class activation code is JDRR3.

Eleventh Day

Today we reviewed 'g' and 'w'. We had fun working in greater depth with rhymes. We continued with our Unit Project.

We began Topic 3 and found corresponding parts of 6 and 7 both with manipulatives, symbols, and numbers. We took the test for Topic 2. Three more people were able to complete their math pattern report for a total of 15 completed.

Fifth Day

Thanks to all of the family members who took the time to attend the Back-to-School evening. It was nice to see everyone. Thank you as well for your questions. Just after everyone left, one of the teachers came across what we think is going to be very close to our 6 week writing assessment. It looks much less daunting than what I was attempting to describe to you. So, I will scrap the Flow Map plans and have the students do a Circle Map and probably a Tree Map (classifying) which should give us more than enough material for our exam. One thing I didn't mention last night is that your child will be completing Thinking Maps every year based on what they know about themselves (or should anyway). I usually suggest to parents that they keep a copy (scan to flash drive) of these for their child to look back on when they are older. On that same flash drive you might also take pictures of projects or keep a copy of our class video compilation. This flash drive will then become your child's grade school portfolio.

Today we reviewed 'f' and 'h'. We worked with rhyming. We reviewed sight words: 'a' and 'have'. We shared with a partner something "we had" and then wrote about it in our journals.

For PE we played passing relay games in cooperative teams. Shoes became an issue yet again today when slip-on shoes came off during an activity.

In math we continued with number sense activities by combining two number patterns to represent a total. A corresponding math sheet was sent for homework as usual along with a practice writing/sound sheet.