Monday

FYI:
*Pictures:

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*Literacy Letters due WEDNESDAY (I've provided a sheet that helps with organization that will be in their planners today!)
*Parents please sign the UK letter from Ms. Wilham and send it back with them tomorrow!

**Extra Credit: I offered (at this time) an xtra credit opp. in Math class.  The students who wanted it have a packet to practice multiplication facts that will be due by FRIDAY!!! (please let me know if you want your child to have it and they didn't come home with it!) :) 

 

Reading:
Today we began learning about inferencing in fiction texts.  Students were very good at picking out details to complete their inference.  We got into leveled groups to work on different fiction short prompts to decide what were the clues the author made, what background knowledge did we have, and how did we make our inference.  Students also practiced spelling their vocab. words by doing 'creative writing' in word study.  We did not get to our text groups (lit. circles) today. 

HW: finish spelling vocab. words (if not finished in class), work on literacy letter (use organizer to help - due Wed.)

Writing:
We finished up our The Magic of a Moment PTA pieces.  These are really good!
No HW

Math:
We continued to work on multiples and factors.  Some groups worked on word problems involving multiples, another group worked on sentence shorts with multiples, and the group with me worked on finding common and greatest common multiples.
HW: differentiated practice sheets that is similar to in-class work
**HW: HW is always meant to be a practice! If HW begins to become a stress or fight between you and the child or results in tears, please let me know! It may mean they are needing more assistance in the classroom! :)

SS: Happy Constitution Day! :)
We celebrated the Constitution by watching School House Rock's We the People and then diving into the Constitution in small groups to learn what each section means.  We also learned a Preamble to the Constitution song. If kids can memorize by Wed., they get extra credit! The words are on the bookmarks they received! :)