In writing, we worked on writing a persuasive writing piece about being elected “Classroom President.” Since last Tuesday was Election Day, we talked a lot about responsibilities that a person has when they are elected into a position. So that gave us the idea to write a persuasive letter “If I was Classroom President.” The students did a wonderful job and some of them were very creative about things they would do if elected. They ranged from no school on Fridays to school on Saturdays and Sundays, to everyone getting on green everyday to everyday being pajama day. It was a very close vote, but our classroom president for 2012-2013 is ……….Jacob McLamb!
In reading, we did a KWL chart about Bats. We first talked about our schema, what we already know and then came up with questions that we hoped to find out. We read lots of informational text and added lots of new information to our schema.
In math, we worked on word problems that had 3 or more addends, or partners. Sometimes, we just add up all of the numbers together to find the total. Other times we have adding and subtracting. It’s so important to read the word problem carefully to see if it is addition only, only subtraction, or we need to add and subtract.
In Wilson Fundations, we continued working on reading and tapping out words that have the suffix /s/. We do not tap out the suffix, since sometimes it makes the /s/ sound and other times it makes the /z/ sound. We have been word detectives where we have been finding words that have the suffix /s/ ending.
Veteran’s Day- With our non-fiction study, we found out a lot of great information about Veteran’s Day. We talked about how the holiday came to be, found out it used to be called Armistice Day, talked about WW1 and WW2 and compared these two wars, but most importantly talked about why we celebrate this very special day every November 11th at 11:00.
Important Information:
-Field Trip Info- Please make sure you are returning the permission slip and the payment of $20.50 as soon as possible. The lunch order form will not be needed for the first field trip since it will be at school, so lunch will only need to be ordered for our 2nd field trip that is in March. We will have lunch as normal for the January trip. Thanks!
- Assessments- Make sure you and your child are working on Word List, Math Masters, reading each night, math homework, and writing. We are coming to the final days in our 2nd quarter and assessments will be starting very shortly. I will be sending home another Track Out Packet, during our month long Track Out.
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