Thursday

FYI:
Lunch Bunch is tomorrow! Please send your child with a G rated movie for us to watch if you have one!
MAP Reading testing: we are still not finished! I will send home scores once we are!
Thanks to my student teacher, I am able to really pull small groups with the intent to get to know where they are and work on skills that will challenge them or help them! It has been great, and I know kids are really enjoying more of the one on one time, too!

Reading:
We worked on finding the main idea and details in our plays.  Students did a great job with this and we are ready to move on to informational reading next week!  Students also worked in small groups with Ms. Wilham and myself on their word study/vocab. words. Students WILL be taking their REAL test tomorrow.  Kids need to be able to use the word correctly in a sentence and spell the word correctly.  We have halted our text groups for now until I receive all the new scores from MAP to correctly place them in text groups! I am hoping (fingers crossed!!) that this will be by Wednesday of next week!
HW:
reading for Literacy Letter, study for vocab. test

Writing:
We worked on peer editing and kids did GREAT! We had a short mini lesson on this taught by our student teacher.  Students then tried it out and they worked really well together. I am so glad!  Our opinion pieces will be complete tomorrow and we will be making our anti-bullying videos for Mrs. Moses to use during her Guidance classes!
HW:
complete your final draft of the opinion piece

Math:
Students worked on estimation in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division problems.  I worked with small groups on a variety of skills including: rounding with decimals, rounding, estimation with large numbers, etc. 
*Students work on different levels and different skills.  This is to meet the needs of EACH and every student and help them succeed!! :)  Some of my kids have been wondering why their work is not the same as their neighbor...I've spoken with the class to tell them that this is a GOOD thing! We all need help or challenges in different areas and it's my job to know about it - not theirs to know about others!! :) 
HW: differentiated HW - there are 4 different sheets, but your child will only have 1 to complete (it will be on rounding/estimation)

SS: http://www.kidsgeo.com/geography-games/latitude-longitude-map-game.php
Today we learned about longitude and latitude.  We used the game above to help us! If you are able to let your child play this game at home, please write me a little note in the planner and I will give him/her extra credit for SS!

**Please place a star next to your initials in the planner so that I can monitor our blog readers! Thanks!! :)

Have a wonderful night,
Mrs. Burton