October 30^th, 2013

Good evening parents! Just a reminder that Halloween is tomorrow and the students may dress up their costumes if they would like. Please do not send children to school with any weapons that may come with the costume. Also, please so not forget that the construction for the parking lot will begin on November 4^th. Please park on the street during this time. We will have teachers out their in the morning to help direct students into the building. Here is a look at our day today;

Math

Grade 1

The grade one worked on one and two more, and one and two less. I have noticed that the students more practice with subtraction, so I focused on this part a lot!

We played a game to find out the number rule. The students were presented with different counter combinations of the same number (5 arranged differently).

We went through sections of get started with students on the overhead, along with a couple of examples.

Homework:

MMS pgs. 28-29

Grade 2

I explained to the students that we are beginning a new unit and what types of things we will be studying . Together the class looked at the big math book and I asked a series of questions that dealt with time and temperature

Then as a class, we created a story based on the picture, and time.

Homework:

Math Makes Sense:

Pgs. 53 – 55 

UOI

Grade 1

We reviewed what a paleontologist does! We used smarties and brown sugar to do our activity. Students worked in groups 2-3 students and they got a chance to dig and discover smarties. Once they took their smarties out they will counted them and recorded them in their ten frames on their worksheet. They were also responsible for drawing a picture of their findings. They also had to tally and write the number.

Grade 2

Today the grade twos began work on their media book. In this book they will analyze three different types of ads, a television ad (which we looked at today) a radio ad, and a print ad. It is asked that the grade 2s bring in their own print ad this Friday

Language

Children worked on their phonics in their language workbooks today. We worked on the same skills we began the week with.

Homework

Grade 1:

Language 1 pgs. 39-40

Grade 2

Language 2: pgs. 33- 35 

Grade 1 & 2

Today we read the story The Case of the Incapactiated Capitals. As a class we went over when and why we use capitals since I have noticed this seems to be a problem. Then, we went over rules for capitals and recorded it on chartpaper. After this, the students picked 3 or 5 rules, and wrote sentences using these rules in their journals.

Have a great night everyone!

Ms. Rossi