Today we had a special guest come and talk to us and tell us his story of his amazing adventure in the Arctic. Through the use of his amazing photography skills, John shared his story, through images of his journey in the Arctic. He shared his many adventures and challenges he faced as well as some of the discoveries he made, such as the different animals he saw. Ask your child to share with you their favorite story from the presentation. Was it the Arctic Rabbit hopping away? Was it how they problem solved to get themselves across the rushing river? Was it how they could sleep when the sun was shining all day and all night? If you are interested in learning more, please click on JOHN DUNN to see some of his AMAZING images he captured!
In math, we are continuing to work on strengthening our comprehension of Place Value and its importance in number sense. Ask your child to explain and give you an example of what they did in Math today. They were either working with me in class, or in a group with Mr. Southworth in the library.
In word work, we continued out exploration of the different ways to read and write the long a sound. Thanks to the students who did their homework last night and brought it in to share with the class! Way to go you guys!! Tonight, the students are coming home with a new journal. Their "HOMEWORK" journal. Please help them to remember to return it to school each day. There won't always be homework, but when there is, this is where they will be working on it. Today students were given a list of words to focus on that have the long a sound. There is one list that all the students will be focusing on, and there there is a list that is their second list to focus on. The students should have marked the first list and then put a circle, or star or heart around their specific list to focus on as well. We will be writing these words as well as working on sorting them, to help students recognize the patterns they see in the words to help them with either reading or writing them. SOmetimes seeing a pattern from a word they know how to spell can help them to spell trickier words, or words they are not familiar with. Sometimes, students just have to learn to read or write a word in a certain way because there are no specific spelling rules or patterns to follow. Please email me if your child is unsure of which list is theirs. We will be focusing on these words over this week and next week.
After the assembly students worked to finish their Acrostic Poem for Remembrance day. Once they had their writing edited, they began to type it up on the computer. Tomorrow we should be finished typing the poems and then they will be able to print them off and display their work. Ask your child to share with you where they are in this process.
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Homework:
Write at least 3 sentences in your homework journal using any of the words from your word list. Please remember to bring your homework journal to school with you tomorrow so that we can share with the class.
Read 15-30 minutes
Mathletics 15-30 minutes.
Question for the blog.
What was your favorite part of the presentation today? Why was this your favorite part? Be specific and detailed in your response!
Have a great night!
Ms. Handelsman
