Hello room 75
Way to go! We got a great deal accomplished today!! You have been working hard on your transitions between tasks and are getting better each day!
Share with your parents something that you learned at school today. Remember, when talking with them, don't use snoozerama sentences. For example when your parents ask, "What did you learn at school?" Don't just say, "Math." Instead, be more specific: "In math we worked on addition strategies. We chose from different number sentences and worked to come up with the solution. This is the problem I worked on."
Tomorrow, Mrs. Hofer will be teaching for me as I will be in a First Aid training class all day (and on Saturday!) She will continue to work with you on your found poetry projects; your basketball goal art project; interviewing at least one classroom ambassador, and some daily five. Mrs. Litman will read you another picture book and will continue to work with you to increase your vocabulary of action words (verbs).
Important information:
Wednesday, November 20th- Scholastic Book orders due.
Friday, November 22- No School PD day.
Homework:
1. Write a letter to Mrs. Hofer. In this letter please let her know what your country of origin is. Why did you chose this country? Who from your family is from this country? What are you looking forward to learning about by doing this project?
2.Write on the blog what your country of origin is you are researching if you have not done so already. Please do this by TOMORROW.
3. Bruce; Bailey; Brooke and Ally; if you don't have them already, please make sure you have come up with a few questions that you want to be researching for your project.
4. Read 15-30 minutes
5. Mathletics 15-30 minutes (please let me know if you need me to give you new assignments. Please write it in the blog.)
Question for the blog:
What is another way you can say walk or run?
Thursday, November 14, 2013
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Found Poetry!
Hello room 75.
Today was another busy day filled with many different learning tasks and activities. Students were very patient this morning as they waited eagerly for the computers to log in and open up Mathletics. (Our system is being updated so things are moving SLOWLY) We are definitely strengthening our understanding of the word "patience". Students are taking their understandings of place value and applying it to their mental math strategies for addition and subtraction. We will be exploring this further in tomorrow's lesson.
After Gym, Mrs. Litman read us a story by Kathy Stinson, called "The Man with the Violin". This book is beautifully written with many descriptive action verbs. After listening to the story, Mrs. Litman had different students from the class act out an action word. The rest of the class had to guess what the word was. By guessing the word and making an incorrect guess, the students were actually increasing their vocabulary of action verbs. For example, if the student who was acting out the word by putting his hands up around their mouth and looking as though they were screaming, the students might suggest the word "scream"; "shout"; "holler"; when in fact the word was "bellow". They now have generated a list of four different ways to say the word scream. While they were saying their guesses, Ansharah was writing down their words so we can use as a reference for our writing. Ask your child to share what some of the words were that were acted and and what some of the guessed words were.
This afternoon was spent with students reading through a large collection of picture books, looking for some favorite poetic language or poems. Working with a partner or on their own, students read through books,and found parts of a story or parts of a poem that they enjoyed reading. Some of them have begun to copy these parts into their writer's notebook. At the end of the lesson, students came into a circle and listened to each other share some found poetry. Introducing them to poetry and poetic language in stories, helps them to recognize what makes for good poetry and will help them to generate ideas when they are asked to write their own poems. In writing tomorrow, we will continue to work on creating a collection of found poetry that they will include in their anthology project that they are working on.
We ended our day by looking at the many different questions the students have come up with in regards to what they want to learn about their Country of Origin. We looked at the questions, and then came up with different categories that their questions can fit into. Working with their table groups they then sorted out their questions. I will work on typing their questions in their categories, which will help them to decide which ones they want to look further into. Thank you for helping your child be so excited about this project. So many came in this morning eager to talk about which country they would like to focus on for their research!! I know that some of the students are asking if they can focus on two. Let's start with one, and then as the questions are decided and the work has begun we can see if 2 would be alright or too much.
Wow, this is a long blog!
Important Information:
November 22 NO SCHOOL PD day.
Homework:
From the book you are reading, find a short passage or part of the book, that you feel the author did a good job of either:using great action verbs; descriptive language; made the piece exciting, interesting or funny; was poetic; then copy this part in your homework journal. This part should not be very long, 2-3 sentences. Please include the title, author's name and date on your page! We will share your selection tomorrow afternoon as part of our writer's workshop.
read 15-30 minutes
mathletics 15-30 minutes
question for the blog:
1) If you have not done so already, please write down your country of origin that you would like to focus on. Remember it should not be a part of North American, it should be the country your family is from before the emigrated to North America
2)What is another word for "said"? (try not to use a word that another student has already written).
See you tomorrow,
Ms. Handelsman
Today was another busy day filled with many different learning tasks and activities. Students were very patient this morning as they waited eagerly for the computers to log in and open up Mathletics. (Our system is being updated so things are moving SLOWLY) We are definitely strengthening our understanding of the word "patience". Students are taking their understandings of place value and applying it to their mental math strategies for addition and subtraction. We will be exploring this further in tomorrow's lesson.
After Gym, Mrs. Litman read us a story by Kathy Stinson, called "The Man with the Violin". This book is beautifully written with many descriptive action verbs. After listening to the story, Mrs. Litman had different students from the class act out an action word. The rest of the class had to guess what the word was. By guessing the word and making an incorrect guess, the students were actually increasing their vocabulary of action verbs. For example, if the student who was acting out the word by putting his hands up around their mouth and looking as though they were screaming, the students might suggest the word "scream"; "shout"; "holler"; when in fact the word was "bellow". They now have generated a list of four different ways to say the word scream. While they were saying their guesses, Ansharah was writing down their words so we can use as a reference for our writing. Ask your child to share what some of the words were that were acted and and what some of the guessed words were.
This afternoon was spent with students reading through a large collection of picture books, looking for some favorite poetic language or poems. Working with a partner or on their own, students read through books,and found parts of a story or parts of a poem that they enjoyed reading. Some of them have begun to copy these parts into their writer's notebook. At the end of the lesson, students came into a circle and listened to each other share some found poetry. Introducing them to poetry and poetic language in stories, helps them to recognize what makes for good poetry and will help them to generate ideas when they are asked to write their own poems. In writing tomorrow, we will continue to work on creating a collection of found poetry that they will include in their anthology project that they are working on.
We ended our day by looking at the many different questions the students have come up with in regards to what they want to learn about their Country of Origin. We looked at the questions, and then came up with different categories that their questions can fit into. Working with their table groups they then sorted out their questions. I will work on typing their questions in their categories, which will help them to decide which ones they want to look further into. Thank you for helping your child be so excited about this project. So many came in this morning eager to talk about which country they would like to focus on for their research!! I know that some of the students are asking if they can focus on two. Let's start with one, and then as the questions are decided and the work has begun we can see if 2 would be alright or too much.
Wow, this is a long blog!
Important Information:
November 22 NO SCHOOL PD day.
Homework:
From the book you are reading, find a short passage or part of the book, that you feel the author did a good job of either:using great action verbs; descriptive language; made the piece exciting, interesting or funny; was poetic; then copy this part in your homework journal. This part should not be very long, 2-3 sentences. Please include the title, author's name and date on your page! We will share your selection tomorrow afternoon as part of our writer's workshop.
read 15-30 minutes
mathletics 15-30 minutes
question for the blog:
1) If you have not done so already, please write down your country of origin that you would like to focus on. Remember it should not be a part of North American, it should be the country your family is from before the emigrated to North America
2)What is another word for "said"? (try not to use a word that another student has already written).
See you tomorrow,
Ms. Handelsman
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Country of Origin
Hello Room 75!
What a busy day after being away for a long weekend! Students were eager to share their stories about what they did on the weekend with the class. In Math, we worked on comparing large numbers. Students chose two numbers randomly and then had to say whether one number was greater than or less than the other number. Students used the greater than and less than symbols when making their number sentences. < or > or =. Ask your child to share with you what they learned in Math today.
In gym students learned how to control the ball when shooting. We will be working on basketball over until the end of next week. Students have come up with specific goals they have in basketball that they will be working on over the next two weeks. This is a great way for them to see what it means to set a goal, work towards achieving it (strategies), and then evidence of having achieved their goal. Students chose to set a goal on shooting, passing or dribbling the ball. Ask your child to share with you the goal they set for themselves, what they are going to do to achieve it, and what evidence will they have to prove they achieved it.
We listened to three different picture books today and students got to choose which one they wanted to write a response about.
We started our next big project today in class. This project will involve working at home and at school. Students will be exploring their family's origin. They will be asking you where their family was before they emigrated to North America. This year our Social Studies program focuses on Communities Around the World and developing an understanding of Global Citizenship. We will be conducting our Inquiry through the lens of the Child.
The purpose of this project is to assist our students in making personal connections to this curriculum. Each student will explore their own ancestry and how it affects who they are, where they came from, and how they fit into our global community. This will also be a great opportunity for your child to explore images from their country as this connects to our overall inquiry question, “How Do Images Impact How We see the World?”
What a busy day after being away for a long weekend! Students were eager to share their stories about what they did on the weekend with the class. In Math, we worked on comparing large numbers. Students chose two numbers randomly and then had to say whether one number was greater than or less than the other number. Students used the greater than and less than symbols when making their number sentences. < or > or =. Ask your child to share with you what they learned in Math today.
In gym students learned how to control the ball when shooting. We will be working on basketball over until the end of next week. Students have come up with specific goals they have in basketball that they will be working on over the next two weeks. This is a great way for them to see what it means to set a goal, work towards achieving it (strategies), and then evidence of having achieved their goal. Students chose to set a goal on shooting, passing or dribbling the ball. Ask your child to share with you the goal they set for themselves, what they are going to do to achieve it, and what evidence will they have to prove they achieved it.
We listened to three different picture books today and students got to choose which one they wanted to write a response about.
We started our next big project today in class. This project will involve working at home and at school. Students will be exploring their family's origin. They will be asking you where their family was before they emigrated to North America. This year our Social Studies program focuses on Communities Around the World and developing an understanding of Global Citizenship. We will be conducting our Inquiry through the lens of the Child.
The purpose of this project is to assist our students in making personal connections to this curriculum. Each student will explore their own ancestry and how it affects who they are, where they came from, and how they fit into our global community. This will also be a great opportunity for your child to explore images from their country as this connects to our overall inquiry question, “How Do Images Impact How We see the World?”
We
ask that you discuss where the members of your family originated from and when
this move to North America occurred and if there is a story that goes along with their emigration. If
there is more than one country, please select one for this project. If your family's origins have Aboriginal or First Nations roots, your child can focus on that origin, if that is what you and your child chose.
Today the students generated a large list of questions that they are interested in learning more about in regards to their country of origin. Ask them to share one or two of the questions that they came up with or were shared during class. We will be sorting these questions into groups and then sharing them with room 75 families with specific expectations for this project. Students will be expected to choose a certain amount of questions that they would like to research more about their specific country. For now, please talk with your child about their countries of origin and decide together which one they would like to research further and share with the class.
Important information:
Friday, November 15th- Ms. Handelsman in First Aid
training all day. Mrs. Hofer in to teach.
Friday, November 22nd- NO SCHOOL PD-
Friday, November 22- Due date for submitting on the
blog your child's country of origin for the project.
Homework:
-Ask a family member to quiz you on your words
(both lists). Words that you spelled incorrectly please re-write 3
times.
-read 15-30 minutes
-Mathletics 15-30 minutes
Question for the Blog:
What are your countries of origin? Which country
are you choosing to research for your project?
See you tomorrow,
Ms. Handelsman
Monday, November 11, 2013
Ms. Hofer
Hello room 75.
I hope that you worked hard for Ms. Hofer on Friday!
I was busy on Friday and Saturday at the Early Childhood Education Conference in Kananaksis. I had a wonderful time and learned a great deal. One of the workshops I went to was all about how I can work with you to help you become even better writers! I am very excited to share with you some of what I learned as we continue to work together to write poems.
I look forward to seeing you tomorrow and hearing all about your weekend and your Friday with Ms. Hofer.
Homework:
Read 15-30 minutes
Mathletics 15-30 (please let me know if you have finished the assignments and I can give you new ones to work on.)
If you have time practice your words, (the second list). Write each one out 3 times and create at least 3 sentences using them. Remember when you are writing them in a sentence to try and use a version of the word that is different than what is on the list, so that you can practice writing them with different endings.
Question for the blog.
What did you do on the weekend that you would like to share with the class?
See you tomorrow,
Ms. Handelsman
I hope that you worked hard for Ms. Hofer on Friday!
I was busy on Friday and Saturday at the Early Childhood Education Conference in Kananaksis. I had a wonderful time and learned a great deal. One of the workshops I went to was all about how I can work with you to help you become even better writers! I am very excited to share with you some of what I learned as we continue to work together to write poems.
I look forward to seeing you tomorrow and hearing all about your weekend and your Friday with Ms. Hofer.
Homework:
Read 15-30 minutes
Mathletics 15-30 (please let me know if you have finished the assignments and I can give you new ones to work on.)
If you have time practice your words, (the second list). Write each one out 3 times and create at least 3 sentences using them. Remember when you are writing them in a sentence to try and use a version of the word that is different than what is on the list, so that you can practice writing them with different endings.
Question for the blog.
What did you do on the weekend that you would like to share with the class?
See you tomorrow,
Ms. Handelsman
Thursday, November 7, 2013
Remembrance Day.
Hello room 75.
Today was our school's Remembrance Day Assembly. The Peace Triad did a wonderful performing their songs and poems and being MC's. There were also a few peace ambassadors from our class who participated. Riley helped to set up and take down the chairs and furniture; Marek and Bruce went up and shook hands with our special guest retired soldier, and thanked him for attending our assembly; Bailey also went up and shook his hand, thanked him and presented him with a gift from the school. In class we finished our Acrostic poems; REMEMBER;PEACE; POPPIES. The students did a wonderful job of creating their art projects that are now hanging in the hallway in front of the class. Ask your child what their work looks like. A goal for our class continues to be respectful of each other and work using either silence or whisper voices, especially when we are working on complicated projects and tasks that require a great deal of concentration and focus.
Tomorrow I will be away at the Early Childhood Education Conference in Kananaskis. Ms. Hofer will be in tomorrow. She is very excited to be working with the students again. For homework, the students know that they are to write a letter to Ms. Hofer about themselves. In the letter, they should write about something that they are interested in, participate in, are looking forward, is interesting about themselves. The students will be sharing their letters in the class meeting tomorrow with Ms. Hofer and with the class. If they end up including any of their spelling words, they can underline them in the letter. When writing, students should be focusing on beginning and end of sentence punctuation, spaces between words, and re-reading their work to ensure what they wrote makes sense to them.
Important information.
Monday, November 11- NO SCHOOL-REMEMBRANCE DAY
Friday, November 22- NO SCHOOL PD DAY
Homework:
To write a letter to Ms. Hofer.
Read 15-30 minutes
Mathletics 15 minutes
Question for the blog:
What did you appreciate the most in our Remembrance Day assembly that you would like to share on the blog and with Ms Hofer?
Have a great Friday and a great long weekend.
See you on Tuesday.
Ms. Handelsman
Today was our school's Remembrance Day Assembly. The Peace Triad did a wonderful performing their songs and poems and being MC's. There were also a few peace ambassadors from our class who participated. Riley helped to set up and take down the chairs and furniture; Marek and Bruce went up and shook hands with our special guest retired soldier, and thanked him for attending our assembly; Bailey also went up and shook his hand, thanked him and presented him with a gift from the school. In class we finished our Acrostic poems; REMEMBER;PEACE; POPPIES. The students did a wonderful job of creating their art projects that are now hanging in the hallway in front of the class. Ask your child what their work looks like. A goal for our class continues to be respectful of each other and work using either silence or whisper voices, especially when we are working on complicated projects and tasks that require a great deal of concentration and focus.
Tomorrow I will be away at the Early Childhood Education Conference in Kananaskis. Ms. Hofer will be in tomorrow. She is very excited to be working with the students again. For homework, the students know that they are to write a letter to Ms. Hofer about themselves. In the letter, they should write about something that they are interested in, participate in, are looking forward, is interesting about themselves. The students will be sharing their letters in the class meeting tomorrow with Ms. Hofer and with the class. If they end up including any of their spelling words, they can underline them in the letter. When writing, students should be focusing on beginning and end of sentence punctuation, spaces between words, and re-reading their work to ensure what they wrote makes sense to them.
Important information.
Monday, November 11- NO SCHOOL-REMEMBRANCE DAY
Friday, November 22- NO SCHOOL PD DAY
Homework:
To write a letter to Ms. Hofer.
Read 15-30 minutes
Mathletics 15 minutes
Question for the blog:
What did you appreciate the most in our Remembrance Day assembly that you would like to share on the blog and with Ms Hofer?
Have a great Friday and a great long weekend.
See you on Tuesday.
Ms. Handelsman
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
First time with our Buddies!!
Hello room 75!
I cannot believe how fast the day goes!
It was funny, this morning we started with three students absent, and then by Gym we were a full class again!
It was during gym that we had a fire drill. We were able to practice evacuating the school if we were in gym during the fire alarm! Ask your child how we evacuate and where we go.
In Math we worked on Mathletics. Students worked on completing their assigned tasks before competing against each other on LIVE MATHLETICS. The goal for our students when on Mathletics, is to compete at at least level 2. Many students are choosing level 1 only, because they feel that level 2 is "too hard". We talked about how the more we practice and work at something, the more familiar and then easier it becomes.
During our story and snack time, we watched a few videos for Remembrance Day. Many of the students in grade 4 remember the song they performed for last year's Remembrance Day Assembly and we (tried) to watch the video of this song. Unfortunately, we were having technical difficulty and it kept freezing on us. Here is the link to the video if you were interested. Highway of Heroes.
In word work students shared with partners and then the class the many different sentences they created for homework!! We had many students work on their homework and bring it in today! Way to go room 75. Their homework for tonight is to work with the "My Pattern Words to Study." First they should write each word three times to become familiar with it. Then for their sentences, they are to generate a sentence using at least one of the words from their list and try to make a change to their word. For example: I was framed, but they still sent me to jail. The word they are working with is frame, but in this sentence they are using it as the root word and adding an ending to it (ed). This way they are becoming familiar with the words on their list and what they need to do when their word is plural, or the tense of their sentence changes. They are to write at least three sentences and underline the word from their list that they used. Here is the list we are working with tonight.
After lunch we met with our buddies from Mrs. Sloane's class. Room 75 did a wonderful job working with their buddies to create their multi-step poppy for the Hope Wing Hallway's wreath. Check out the link if you want to see what steps we took to create our POPPIES.
Students in room 75 worked really hard to finish their acrostic poem for Remembrance day! All students finished writing, editing and then typing their work onto the computer. Once they had typed their work, they were able to go and edit their work even further. Ask them what they needed to include in their poetry writing. Now we will print them and put them together!
Tomorrow is our Remembrance Day assembly. This will be at 1030 in the morning. Unfortunately as the school is so large and space is limited in the gym, only family members of students who are participating in the assembly are welcome to attend.
Important information.
Monday, November 11th, NO SCHOOL- Remembrance Day
Friday, November 22nd, NO SCHOOL- PD day
Thursday, November 28th- FUN LUNCH!
Homework:
read 15-30 minutes
mathletics 15-30
writing homework (see above for reminder instructions, in case you forgot what was discussed in class).
Question for the blog:
What was your buddy's name? What did you enjoy the most about our buddy time today?
See you tomorrow,
Ms. Handelsman
I cannot believe how fast the day goes!
It was funny, this morning we started with three students absent, and then by Gym we were a full class again!
It was during gym that we had a fire drill. We were able to practice evacuating the school if we were in gym during the fire alarm! Ask your child how we evacuate and where we go.
In Math we worked on Mathletics. Students worked on completing their assigned tasks before competing against each other on LIVE MATHLETICS. The goal for our students when on Mathletics, is to compete at at least level 2. Many students are choosing level 1 only, because they feel that level 2 is "too hard". We talked about how the more we practice and work at something, the more familiar and then easier it becomes.
During our story and snack time, we watched a few videos for Remembrance Day. Many of the students in grade 4 remember the song they performed for last year's Remembrance Day Assembly and we (tried) to watch the video of this song. Unfortunately, we were having technical difficulty and it kept freezing on us. Here is the link to the video if you were interested. Highway of Heroes.
In word work students shared with partners and then the class the many different sentences they created for homework!! We had many students work on their homework and bring it in today! Way to go room 75. Their homework for tonight is to work with the "My Pattern Words to Study." First they should write each word three times to become familiar with it. Then for their sentences, they are to generate a sentence using at least one of the words from their list and try to make a change to their word. For example: I was framed, but they still sent me to jail. The word they are working with is frame, but in this sentence they are using it as the root word and adding an ending to it (ed). This way they are becoming familiar with the words on their list and what they need to do when their word is plural, or the tense of their sentence changes. They are to write at least three sentences and underline the word from their list that they used. Here is the list we are working with tonight.
After lunch we met with our buddies from Mrs. Sloane's class. Room 75 did a wonderful job working with their buddies to create their multi-step poppy for the Hope Wing Hallway's wreath. Check out the link if you want to see what steps we took to create our POPPIES.
Students in room 75 worked really hard to finish their acrostic poem for Remembrance day! All students finished writing, editing and then typing their work onto the computer. Once they had typed their work, they were able to go and edit their work even further. Ask them what they needed to include in their poetry writing. Now we will print them and put them together!
Tomorrow is our Remembrance Day assembly. This will be at 1030 in the morning. Unfortunately as the school is so large and space is limited in the gym, only family members of students who are participating in the assembly are welcome to attend.
Important information.
Monday, November 11th, NO SCHOOL- Remembrance Day
Friday, November 22nd, NO SCHOOL- PD day
Thursday, November 28th- FUN LUNCH!
Homework:
read 15-30 minutes
mathletics 15-30
writing homework (see above for reminder instructions, in case you forgot what was discussed in class).
Question for the blog:
What was your buddy's name? What did you enjoy the most about our buddy time today?
See you tomorrow,
Ms. Handelsman
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
John Dunn The Arctic Explorer
Hello room 75.
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.
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.
Important information:
another form went home, please read for date sensitive information.
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
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