Week of October 21st, 2013

We started a new morning job today.  Students had to write 10 Word Wall words.

Hard at work during Daily 5 time!  Reading, writing, and listening!

We started a new unit in math.  Students are working on describing shapes and building with them.  We played a game called Fill the Hexagon.  We worked as a group to list all of the ways you could build a hexagon using other shapes.

During Math Menu, I met with different groups to work on story problems.  Some of the work went up on the Marvelous Math Work wall.  These students were working on using strategies to find all of the combinations to make 9.

Be on the lookout for Friday Journals and Friday Homework Folders!  Both of these come home on Friday and should return to school on Thursday.  Students should read the letter they wrote to an adult and the adult can respond within the journal.

Students should be reading at least 40 minutes a week and recording it in their Reading Log.  If students bring the Reading Log back on Thursday, they may put a marble in our jar.  Once the jar is full, we get to pick out a new book for our classroom library.

We went past our goal this week!  Next week we will be celebrating by watching a special Magic School Bus video on Thursday.

Our Word Wall words this week were he, be, she, we, for, and or.