Ask Your Child About:
- Community Building
- Class Handshake
- Ms. Velez Teaches about Growth Mindset
- Read Aloud: The Dot by Peter Reynolds
- Celebrating International Dot Day
- Water Color Paintings
- Honoring September 11th by Discussing Local Heroes
- Sketching with Author Mo Willems
- Reading
- Started Unit 1: Interpreting Characters in Fiction Texts
- Using Stop & Jots to Read Intensely
- Reading Fluently
- Establishing Good Reading Habits
- Read Aloud Books:
- Continued The Tiger Rising by Kate DiCamillo
- Sky Color by Peter Reynolds
- Writing
- Started Unit 1: Realistic Fiction Narratives
- Brainstorming Multiple Ideas
- Exploring Ideas through Story Blurbs
- Best Part of Me Poems
- Word Study
- First Spelling Check-In after two weeks of interactive sorts
- Sparkle Spelling Game
- Spelling Tools
- Spelling Parking Lot
- "No Excuse" 4th Word List
- Math
- Number Corner
- Marking multiples of 2, 3 and 6 on the classroom number line
- Megan's Marbles Multiplication Word Problems
- Similarities and Differences of Ancient Egyptian and Modern Numerals
- Collection: 6 inches = what fraction of a foot? = what fraction of a yard?
- Using a ratio table, number line, tile array, or area model to solve multiplication problems
- Using a ratio table, number line with multiplication, or tiles to solve division problems
- Labeling the parts of a division equation: dividend, divisor, & quotient
- Science
- Mini Lesson: Who Invented Schools?
- Horace Mann, Catherine Beecher, & Ruby Bridges
- Sink or Float experiment - Density follow up lesson from our Lava Lamp Experiment
- Began Unit 1: The Human Machine - Muscles and Skeleton
- Why do our biceps bulge?
Announcements:
- Parent Night: Thursday, September 22nd @6pm
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Parent
Night Agenda |
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6:00 Parents to the
Pavilion Students to the
Playground |
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6:15 Parents pick up children from playground and report to the classroom (Go to youngest sibling first) |
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6:40 Visit Specials
(optional) If you were at a
younger sibling’s class, this is when you will arrive to our classroom. |
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7:00 Parent Night Ends-
Have a good night! |
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