In writing, we continued working on persuasive letter writing. We read lots of books where students were trying to persuade people to feel a certain way like the books “My Teacher for President” and “I Wanna Iguana” by Karen Kaufman Orloff. We continued to brainstorm things that we would change around school and started talking about the correct letter format. We will continue working on this this week.
In reading, we focused on retelling the story in order. For books that have lots of details, we worked on using the book to go back and use it as a resource. We practice retelling the correct sequence of events using books like “The little old lady who wasn’t afraid of anything” and “There was an old lady who swallowed some leaves.” Since these books have lots of events, we would pause after every few pages and review the correct sequence of events.
In math, we were working on adding 2 decade numbers together like 30+40, where we would do 3 ten sticks, then add 4 more ten sticks and count by 10’s to give us 70. Then we would add 3+4, where we would just use ones to add 3 ones plus 4 ones to give us 7. Then we worked on adding 30+4 where we would need 3 ten sticks for 30 and then 4 ones to give us 10, 20, 30, 31, 32, 33, and finally 34.
In Wilson Fundations, we have started working with words that have the suffix /s/. This is just a fancy way of saying a word is plural, meaning it has more than 1. To mark up with word, we would underline the baseword and circle the suffix /s/. For example, if we had the word logs, we would underline log and then circle the s. When we tap this word out, we never tap out the suffix, because sometimes it can have the /s/ sound and others have the /z/ sound. So to tap out the word logs, we would say /l/, /o/, /g/ and blend it together to say log, then logs.
Important Information:
- Election Day- Tomorrow will be a two hour delay. That means that the first bell where students can enter the school will be 10:45 and the tardy bell rings at 11:15. Just for tomorrow, our lunch will be from 11:55 to 12:25. Students in the school will also be able to vote for president tomorrow. They will circle their choice. We will go to the media center at 11:15 to vote, so it’s important to get here on time. Breakfast will not be served, since it will be time for lunches to start as soon as the bell rings.
- Field Trip Information- Today a packet came home about our 2 field trips for the school year. We will have our first trip, Science Fun for Everyone, on Thursday, January 10th. This field trip will take place at school. Our second field trip will be at Poe Health Center and will on Wednesday, March 27th. The total for both field trips is $20.50. Money can be turned in starting tomorrow. Please bring exact change or write a check out to Banks Road Elementary School. There is also an option for online payment. There is a sheet that came home in the packet giving more information about this.
- Book-It! - Congrats to all of the students who read for at least 45 minutes each week for a total of at least 180 minutes for the month. The following students got their Book-It! certificate for the month on October: Dylan, Hayden, Carson, Seth, Bryson, Angelina, Kaitlyn, Daniela, Jeremy, Austin, Lily, Jeremiah, and Alexis. Way to go! November Book-It! came home last week and will be due on Friday, November 30th. Our goal is again going to be 45 minutes a week.
- Coats for outside- It looks like Fall is finally here to stay. We will continue to go outside to recess as the weather gets cooler. Please make sure your child is coming to school with coats, gloves, scarves, hats, etc. There have been lots of bugs and germs going around and I don’t want anyone to get sick. Thanks for your help with this!
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