Wednesday

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*Picture day is Sept. 6
*Open House night Aug. 30

Science:
Today we continued with the classification of living things! We played a fun game involving carnivore, herbivore, and omnivore as well as invertebrates and vertebrates.  Students did a great job listening and following along.

Reading: {remember, this only shows the HW and activities from students in my Reading class}:
We continued with working on key details.  We had so much planned today and didn't get to half of it! Good thing we have tomorrow! Students worked on their daily grammar sheet and then we did our read-aloud.  Next, students were placed into small groups and worked on fluency and emotion while reading from small leveled books on mysteries.  Students then showed their knowledge of problem and solution and analyzing with answering 2 questions from the story.  I asked the students to WRITE in complete sentences and MORE than 1 sentence.  I also asked for correct punctuation and capital letters.  I will be looking those over tonight and will be asking students who did not follow these guidelines to re-do their work.  We want QUALITY WORK!! Students also worked on their vocab words (no test this week).
HW: finish 2 questions from leveled readers if needed, define vocab words if needed, complete vocab sheet - everyone

Math: {only shows what we did in MY math class}:
We continued working on the different forms and place value and also worked on comparing numbers up to the thousands and beyond.  Students did pretty well with this.  We were able to work in pairs to complete an activity to help us with this as well.
HW: complete a paper with 5 comparing numbers problems AND a place value math comic sheet - please sign and check both

Writing:
Today we worked on editing our spelling mistakes.  Next we started working on our cursive writing as students will be asked to write in cursive on some assignments.  Lastly, we made large posters with our sensory words.  They are neat and will hopefully help us use better words when we start writing! No HW

Have a good night,