Wednesday

Thank you to those of you who were able to come to Open House last night! It was great to see you again and wonderful to meet Mrs. Maldonado's parents as well.  I appreciate the kind words you had to say about our upcoming baby. It meant a lot. :)
FYI:
*Wednesday Folders are coming home today
*Math tests from my math class came home today
*graded papers were to come home today but we didn't get them filed into the mailboxes fast enough - sorry!
*gradebook is currently being loaded! :)

Science:
Today we continued working on animal adaptations.  We found that there are 2 different types of adaptations.  See if your child can remember them! (physical and behavioral) We also had time to use the smartboard for an interactive activity that the kids enjoyed!
HW: if your child did not finish the matching adaptations page b/c of open house last night, it is due tomorrow

Reading:
Today in class we continued working on main idea.  Some students had a hard time giving a short main idea phrase from a paragraph so we worked as a whole group again on this.  Then, students were placed in lexile leveled pairs to read from small leveled readers.  Students had 2 questions to answer concerning main idea.  I am trying to work with your children VERY hard on restating the question in the answer and using correct punctuation and capital letters in the beginning of a sentence!! Students are losing points when they do not do this!  We also go into our Lit. Groups and read 2 chapters of our book.
HW: finish leveled questions 1 and 2 if not in class, write vocab words in a sentence (remember, vocab words can be found to the right of the blog under the title "vocab")

Math:
Today we continued working with rounding.  We reviewed rounding to the nearest tens place even with numbers up to the millions.  Today we worked on hundreds place.  Some students are still having a hard time working on this.  Please go through your child's HW tonight to see if they need extra attention on this. We also worked some on our multiplication facts.
**Tests are coming home tonight.  If your child received a D or F, there is a place to sign the test and have them return this.  Intervention groups will be starting shortly and will be working with some of my kids in math group. I will also be giving extra work and extra attention to certain students who scored poorly on the test during Review Fridays as well as intervention groups during the regular math class time. (Please refer to the grading scale to the right of the blog if you need to know what the letter grade is.)
HW: sheet on rounding to the nearest tens and hundreds place, please sign

Writing:
We continued with our writing read-aloud and it helped us use our imagination better when writing entertaining stories.  Students also had a series of writer's notebook prompts to complete to help in our writing process.  We also had time for DEAR with our AR books.
No HW

Have a good night,