Wednesday

*Please remember to check Wednesday Folders! There will be important info from the office as well as graded papers!

*Book Log is coming home today in your child's Red Take-Home Folder. Remember, students should be reading 20 minutes per night.  If your child is reading on his/her level he/she should be able to take an AR test on the book as well to earn points!

Math: Today we reviewed Front-End Estimation and I was super impressed! The kids did a great job on their HW and on the review!  Next, we began Rounding to the nearest TENS place.  After a little practice the students started getting the hang of it! We had a lot of group and individual practice!
HW: one page on lined paper that has 5 questions about Rounding to the nearest tens place - the first problem we did together to make sure that the kids would have an example once they got home.

We also played this game at the end of the class - if you have time let your child play it!
Check out this website at home with your child to review Rounding to the Nearest Tens Place:
http://www.free-training-tutorial.com/rounding/rounding-spaceships.html

Reading:  Hmmm, I am thinking LOTS of awesome parents read my blog last night because EVERYONE had their HW today! YAY! I was a very happy teacher to see that! I had also last night baked cookies for the kids that turned in HW for today. I am so happy to announce that everyone received a cookie!! :) 
We also continued with our reading genre for the week - Mystery.  We discussed the text features found in the story we read as well as made up our own text features for a mystery!  We discussed the problem and solution of this, too.  Lastly, the kids were able to work on their Author Study for an extra 10 minutes today since they are due on Tuesday (tomorrow will be the last day to work on these at school).  Most students are almost finished and it's been great to see their researching skills improve!
HW: None

Science: We completed our study guide for the Unity and Diversity test. It will be Tuesday Sept. 7th. We will be playing a review Jeopardy game tomorrow that will have similar questions to the test. If you would like me to email you the game to play over the weekend or tomorrow night I would be happy too! I would post it here but I can't seem to figure that out. :) So, email today or tomorrow and I will get it sent to you by tomorrow afternoon!
No HW

Writing: Today we worked on our introduction of our Memoir.  Students are doing a good job with this and really working well with peers in their Writing Groups.

**The Bookworm Cafe opened today! Kids were so excited! After lots of anticipation and modeling, the students were finally able to get in the Cafe and check out a book! I gave the students extra DEAR time today because of the special occasion! :)  Check out some of our pictures!

Have a great night,