Week of Nov. 5

Upcoming Events:

J November 14: 2 hr. Early Out

J November 16: If the E’Hawks win on Saturday they will play on Nov. 16.  There will be no school so you can go cheer on the E’Hawks in Cedar Falls at the UNIDome.  Please watch/ listen to the game on Saturday. Go E’Hawks!!!

J November 21: 1 hr. Early Out

J November 22 and 23: No School, Thanksgiving Break

Notes:

JOur new word work activities this week include: typing our spelling words, finding our words in a word search and making our own word search, as well as making our words with magnets.  I am so pleased to see how good of our keyboard skills are!!! J

JOur testing strategy that we worked on this week was

          -Listen carefully.  Think about what you her while you look at each picture.

          -Listen to all answer choices before you choose.

          -Be sure about your answer.

          -Think about what the sentence means.

Things to Work on:

JAddition problems with sums that are more than ten.

What we have been up to:

Reading: Our theme this week was about animal homes.  We read about animals in the Everglades and talked about key details in our reading.  This week we had some time to read some Thanksgiving poems.  We will practice and add to these poems up until Thanksgiving week as we will be reading to some third graders before Thanksgiving break.  Having students read things more than once helps build fluency.

Math: In math we did some story problems with three addends.  Students amazed me at how well they did with this.  They are great problem solvers.  This week students were able to explore patterns with calculators.  We have finished Unit 3 and will start Unit 4 on Monday.

Science: We have continued our study about animal classifications.  This week we learned about reptiles, fish, and insects.  Students are really enjoying looking at library books on each of these classifications.