Week of Oct. 14

Upcoming Events:

* Parent Teacher Conferences Oct. 24 and 28 (4-7:30)

* Oct. 24 and 28 Early Out (1 hour)

* Oct 25 Pictures Re-takes (bring back picture packet)

* Oct. 31 Fall Party

Notes:

*This week our class has been working on summarizing.  We have really been thinking about the important details in a book.

*Please be sure to keep logging minutes for the reading challenge.  The minutes will only be counted if a parent signs or initials their planner.  It is also important that each student brings their planners to school daily.

Things to Work on:

*Making connections while reading and activate prior knowledge.

What we have been up to:

Reading: We worked with a lot of word endings this week: -and, -st, -ink, and –nt.  Students have been on a look out for words with these endings.  We were able to read some Halloween poems and talked about October related words.  

Math: In math we have been working on expanding our problem solving strategies beyond adding or subtracting two numbers.  Students worked with problems that involved adding more than one number: Billy has two bags of apples.  Each bag has 3 apples inside.  How many apples in all?  We also worked on writing basic subtraction problems.

Science: This week we wrapped up our science unit on matter.  We finished the unit talking about ways you can separate mixtures.  Students also conducted an experiment on which objects sink or float.