Classroom Update

Parent Information

• Don't forget to send in the Acceptable use policy.  We need it signed to allow students to use the computers.

• We will be having our Halloween parade and party next Thursday.  Please send in your child's costume that day.  Any make-up should be applied at home.  The parade will start at 1:30.  We will be parading around the school.

• Please send in the class email form.  I would like to give them out so the room parents have them for the Halloween party.

Math

• Continued working with story problems focusing on using the most efficient strategies we can: counting on or better yet...known fact
• Continued working on showing our thinking, record a number equation and label our answers
• Worked on problems with multiple combinations.  Students iidentified some target words..."some, target number & how many of each". 

***Check out our guest blogger Sean's system he uses to solve this type of problem.

                                

Social Studies

• Read several different stories about Christopher Columbus

Literacy

• Worked with the short vowel I.  "I...itch...i"
• Worked with the ig & ick word families
• Learned that you use -ck at the end of a word or syllable that has a short vowel
• Began working with short O.  "O...octopus..o"
• Worked with the -ock & -op families
• Writer's Workshop:  learned how to "unfreeze our stories" by making our characters move and talk

Global Read Aloud

We continued to read books by Eric Carle as part of our global read aloud.  This week we focused on The Mixed-Up Chameleon.  In our library/tech class we worked on making ourselves into animals.  The students used "fotobabble" to record themselves.  I then used "thinglink" to put in all together.  Click on all the touch points to see/hear our mixed up animals.