10-13-2010

Math night: Another great event! I was so impressed to see the turnout again. It seemed as if the kids and their parents had a good time. I know that it is hard to give up your "at home" time, but I think the benefits are emense. The kids looked so happy running from room to room learning new ways to practice their math.

Reading: Reading response due tomorrow.
We have been working on fluency this week by reading tall tale plays. The kids will be preforming them tomorrow during class. Our next strategy is decoding words. We'll be working on that for the next couple of days. We have finished our first theme, and will be spending some time taking our end of the theme test. These tests take some time, but are good tools to help figure out what the kids still need to work on.

Vocabulary and spelling: We got a little ahead in the spelling and vocab areas over the last couple of weeks. Therefore, we will be keeping the words that we got today for the next week and 1/2. Our spelling test will be next Friday- October 22. Our vocabulary test will Thursday Oct 21.

Writing: Tall tale first draft is due tomorrow

Language arts: We have spent this week's language arts time in the lab on our first technology unit. I posted it on the wiki if you are interested in taking a look!