Good Afternoon! Thursday~

We had another great 2nd day of school!

Today the kids came in wonderfully and got started on their work.  We switched classes for Reading and Math today with Mrs. Maldonado.  Ask your child who their teacher is for Reading and Math class!

These are NOT permanent lists.  We went off the MAP scores from 3rd grade Spring test, but we will re-group if needed by next Friday according to the MST scores and progress within the classes. 

In Math today we made a Number poster to describe our life in numbers.  Ashley won having 30 different numbers describing herself!  We also worked on reviewing place value with candy. Here are a few pictures to demonstrate what we did. No HW tonight.

Our Math and Reading classes were cut a little short today due to an orchestra meeting with Mrs. Higgins. Your child has a info paper in their Red take-home folder for info for you.

In Reading today we began our new book we will be reading as a class, The Watson's Go To Birmingham.  We will read this book together to model and learn how my Literature circles will go. Activities will be differentiated as needed.  We also played a review game with adverbs, adjectives, homonyms, etc.  We will be working on those items soon! :) No HW

For Science today we went over the Scientific Method by watching an experiment.  Ask your child how you can see all 3 states of matter all at once! :)  We then began our new unit on Unity and Diversity beginning with Living, Non-Living, and Once-Living.  We took a very short science walk to classify what we saw into these groups. No HW

Unfortunately we were not able to go outside for Recess due to the heat advisory--so we played 4 Corners in our classroom.

For writing today we decorated our Writer's Notebooks, went over what I expect and what they are able to write about in their notebooks, and then worked on prompts.

HW:
Finish decorating the writer's notebook IF WANT
Finish the All About Me poster from Wednesday

**Please help your child remembering to ask you to sign their planner! IF you read this, put a smiley face next to your initials on the planner. Thanks!!
Have a great night,