Welcome Back!

Hi Everyone,
I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving break.  I enjoyed my time off and spent most of it with friends, family, and furry animals! Students settled back in and they are counting down the weeks until the big holiday break.


Mix it Up
On Tuesday, December 10 students will be mixing it up for lunch.  Just as we did last year, students will receive different colored wristbands before lunch. The goal is to get students sitting with as many new friends as possible.
Each table in the cafeteria will have colored tablecloths and kids will sit in the cafeteria by matching their wristbands to tablecloth colors. Kids still will sit by grade level but will mix it up within their grades based on colors rather than pre-existing friendships. There will be conversation starters at each of the tables.


Writing
Students are wrapping up their personal narratives. Students have finished typing their final drafts and I am conferring with individual students on their published piece.  We are going over their typing and fixing any capitalization, punctuation, spelling errors.  We will have our author's celebration next Friday morning and we can't wait.  Thank you for supporting the classroom and helping your child to love to write.


Math
We finished up Unit 3 and took the Unit 4 preassessment.  I went over all the tests with students for mastery if it was needed.  Students have graphed their progress.

Please remember to take a look at the blog calendar, which helps to see when things are due or coming up.  It is located at the bottom of each page on this blog.

For those of you looking for extra math practice ideas that can be done at home, please have your child go onto EM online or on to my blog in the Curriculum and Student Resources page to practice the following:
  • Two and three-digit multiplication using partial products and U.S. traditional
  • Multi-step number stories
  • Equivalent fractions
  • Adding and subtracting fractions with unlike denominators
  • Changing fractions into mixed numbers


Reading
This week we started a new genre of study.  We are studying Non-Fiction/Informational Text!  Students will be reading one of the following books for their reading group.  Reading Assignments have been given.  Students have an assigned number of pages, a thinkmark, and a text feature scavenger hunt! 


Have a great weekend!








Homework/Events Calendar