Thursday - September 13th

• Reading:
• Today was a busy "business" day.  We took our STAR Reading Test and scores will be posted tomorrow. Make sure to ask your little ones what their reading level is.  We also finished writing our Winter Wishes letters so they can be turned in and checked over before the 21st deadline.
• Math:
• We checked homework and then moved into lesson 1.2 which is all about representing numbers up to 100,000 in different forms.  We worked with standard form, expanded form, and written form.  We  had to slow down because the kiddos didn't seem to remember what they learned last year.  We will keep working on this skill through the unit.  Some helpful things to remember are below: (click on poster to enlarge)

                 

            

                          

• Writing:
• We continued reading our text for writing "Dear Mr. Henshaw".  In the text today we saw the main character answering some questions Mr. Henshaw asked of him.  We studied this responses and discussed how the answers were full of details and description and full. 
• We started our Writing Notebook today.  (Some students haven't brought supplies yet, so they had to use loose leaf paper).  We went over how to head our paper and wrote down the four questions they have to answer tonight for writing.  These are the same questions our character Leigh Botts answered today, so they have to try and have a lot of details and descriptions and write full responses to each question.. not just an answer.  They have to RESPOND.
• Organization:
• We spent the end of the day talking about setting ourselves up to be productive students.  We wrote down homework in our homework notebook or planner (some kids didn't have one)... I checked to make sure everyone wrote down homework and that they had all the books and folders they needed in their backpacks.  We are going to have to buckle down and start focusing on learning!  SETTING YOURSELF UP FOR SUCCESS!

Homework:

1. Math - GoMath Pages 15-16
2. Reading - Read 20 minutes and fill out Reading Log
3. Writing - Questions 1-4 in writing notebook from Dear Mr. Henshaw
4. All About Me Poster Project - Several students didn't finish project from weekend