Monday, September 16

Today was a Monday. :) We watched a video on Weathering and Erosion in Science. Students took away quite a bit of information from this video. Hopefully, over the next few weeks they will have a secure understanding of the processes that shape Earth. We got a new math menu for our math work this week. Our objectives for Math are to understand and demonstrate the standard algorithm (the way we learned) for addition and subtraction. We are also going to review basic multiplication facts. After lunch and recess, we read more from Wonder. This perspective was that of Justin, Via's boyfriend. We also took a look into author's craft with how the author wrote his section--NO CAPITALS. Ugh~it was difficult to read! Then, we had some guided reading groups and completed some work for Reader's Workshop. This week, in reading groups, we are focusing on close reading. I met with Green, Red and Blue today--can your kiddo tell you what close reading is? We are also looking at stamina and reading CHAPTER books. Kids are trying to find an assortment of books from the library that will keep them entertained or informed for a week as they will be going to the library weekly. I am keeping track of their independent reads and helping them to pick an assortment of genres and levels of books. Please help at home to be sure that they are reading independently many types of reading materials. In Writing, we are trying to practice multiple paragraph writing, editing and revising through writing book reviews. We are then going to send them into Scholastic News where there is a chance they could be published. Cool beans! (as Auggie would say)