Birthday Graph and Home Reading

Welcome back after the long weekend! I taught this morning and Mr. Wilson taught this afternoon.

This morning the students wrote a spelling pre-test. There are 3 spelling groups (green, yellow, and pink) with different words. Students in the green group were challenged to try the words from the yellow list and many of the students in this group did. I’m impressed with everyone’s positive attitude and excellent effort to better their spelling.

The students’ spelling list will be sent home tomorrow and Mr. W will give them their spelling tests on Friday. The spelling lists are also on the right side of the blog, under Weekly Spelling Words.

In Math we started a graphing unit by taking a survey of when students’ birthdays are and graphing the results in a bar graph. It was a collaborative effort and all students contributed.

In Language Arts, the students gave me written feedback about how, what, and why they read. I gave the students a tour of our new book bins, and we had an enthusiastic conversation about the book genres and interesting authors that we have in our classroom. Many students were excited to see series like Geronimo Stilton, Artemis Fowl, and Harry Potter, and interesting, large information books with brilliant photographs.

Students also had time to work on their self-portraits and many are now displayed in the classroom.

 

NOTICES:

Tomorrow a 'Nights of Reading calendar' will be sent home for parents/guardians to sign when students have read at home. Our class’ goal is to reach 1000 nights of reading. I know we can do it if everyone does their part.

A reminder to try and sell as many entertainment books as you can. A large portion of the sales is allocated to each class for field trips.

Mrs. Schneider