Wednesday

Remember to check Wednesday Folders!

FYI:
*Food Drive is going on now! Last year my class WON the big prize! I hope we can have a repeat!
*Conferences are going on now. I have them before/after/during school. Please advise as it may take me a bit to email you back! :)
*Grading Period ends next week
*We've been wasting so many tissues when using our white boards.  We love to learn with the white boards because it is an easy way to do quick assessments. If you are able to send in a washcloth for us to use instead of tissues that would be GREAT! Thank you in advance! If not, I will go this weekend and purchase some at the Dollar Store! :)
*We're getting a turtle!! Actually ~ 2!  2 girls wrote me a persuasive letter to get one for our class.  They were great at already figuring out all the reasons I would say no! haha!  However, I was offered 2 turtles on Tuesday for FREE with the container and everything! So, we will use the money students brought in for food.

Today:
Math: Today we continued on double digit multiplication. Some of the kids got it, and some were still frustrated.  The BIGGEST thing I saw today was that students do not know their facts which makes it so hard to do the problems.  Please try and have your child practice mult. facts nightly. 
HW: multiplication worksheet - please check!

Reading: Today we continued learning about author's purpose - PIE.  We used an ORQ to learn about this and it is hanging out in the hallway! We also found PIE in our lit. novels.  Students also had time to read in their new lit. novels.
HW: short sheet on author's purpose

Science: We will be having our Fossils test next Monday.  The kids took a practice quiz and did extremely well!! :)  The study guides are the sheets that are in the yellow folders.
No HW

Writing: We had Health today during writing.  We will begin our new piece tomorrow - article writing.

Have a wonderful night,
Mrs. Burton