Tuesday, September 25th

• The day started with Music in the auditorium with Ms. Young.
• Then we had a quick trip to the library so students could check out and return books.  I noticed a lot of kids returned books but only a handful have taken online AR tests for the books.  
• Pick out a Book, Take it Home to Read, Take Test at School, Return, Pick a New Book
• ELA:

• We started by going over the ELA packet and day 1 homework.  We read the text together and then answered the summary and vocab questions.  Next, we started our Chapter Book "STONE FOX".  Our learning target today was focusing on what is comprehension and how do we show it.  WE read all of chapter 1 and part of chapter 2.  Students worked on WHO the section was about, WHAT or WHY they were doing what they were doing, and IS IT CONNECTED or IS IT NEW to what they were already reading.  We practiced with Stone Fox and then students did independent practice when they were doing independent reading.  They had to stop after each chapter and write a comprehension sticky note.  Tonight when they read, please ask them to see their end of chapter sticky notes.
• Math 
• We went over the homework from last night.  Students seem to be getting the estimating to check if your answer is reasonable.  Then we moved into subtracting large numbers.  WOW!  Parents - do me a huge favor - please make sure you are checking in with your students during math.  More than half the class didn't remember how to subtract correctly across zero's or were reversing the order of subtraction instead of regrouping.  We spent a LONG time on math today trying to refocus and stomp out these misunderstandings.  Today we estimated with subtraction as well as just subtracted large numbers and then checked our subtraction with addition.  Here is a video to help you remember the skill:  Subtracting large numbers with regrouping
• Writing:
• We focused today on "what to do if you get stuck and don't know what to write?"  Some ideas were think about the character, draw a sketch of the setting, set goals, look at other examples, look at charts in the room.... these are all great ideas of what to do if you get stuck when writing.   We read pages 90-98 in Dear Mr. Henshaw and made connections with our comprehension focus in reading and getting stuck with writing which is what is happening to the main character in Dear Mr. Henshaw as he is writing a story for a contest.
• Social Studies:
• What is geography was the theme of the day.  Geography is the study of people and places.  We read the first section of our Social Studies book to get some basic information before our first learning task.  

Homework:

1. GoMath pages 47-48
1. PLEASE CHECK TO SEE IF YOUR CHILD IS SUBTRACTING CORRECTLY
2. ELA Packet 
1. Read the text again on page 12
2. Answer the RIGHT THERE questions on page 14
3. Reading Log
1. Read your IR book for 30 minutes
2. Use sticky notes to show comprehension as you read
3. Fill out reading log