Talkative Tuesday

Parents:

Please talk to your children and remind them that school is a place of learning, not a place to talk to your friends and goof off.  The amount of talking and lack of work today was very alarming.

• 1st / 2nd - Literacy Block
• After breakfast, we moved into literacy.  (ReadyGen Lesson 3B.2).The focus today was using the skills of cause in effect in terms of the pages in the Weather book read today.  We also focused on the different types of informational writing and what they looked like.  We read pages 10-15 in the Weather book, did a Cause and Effect activity. We were unable to do the writing activity that used the weather forecast to create a T-Chart comparing and contrasting today's weather with the forecast for tomorrow due to all the talking.  
• 3rd / 4th - Math Block
• GoMath 2.6 was the focus today.  We solved problems using data on a bar graph.  The students spent more time talking than following the steps we had put forth for working with bar graphs.  I spent 35 minutes going over, step by step, the classwork because students were not focusing and following the steps.  The word problems can be quite tricky if you don't concentrate and following the steps.  
• 5th - Lunch
• 6th - Science with Ms. Galan
• 7th - Social Studies
• Unit 3 - Land and Economy (Read and Answer Questions)

Homework

• Math 
• Go Math 2.6 practice/homework pp. 123-124
• Bar Graph Practice Sheet
• Literacy
• Spelling Practice / Reading Comprehension Practice
• Read 45-60 minutes (STAR TEST TOMORROW)