RAD day was a great success! The students enjoyed lots of great reading time and I had an opportunity to work with many of them on both reading and math. They especially loved reading with their flashlights when the lights were out. Thanks for helping them gather and bring in all their supplies. Also, the first 6 speeches were fantastic! The students wrote interesting reasons/examples to support their opinions and delivered well practiced talks. I'm looking forward to the remaining speeches this week.
QUESTIONS: How do you measure liquid? What visual do you use to remember a liter? milliliter? What do the characters in our new read aloud Desperaux and Roscuro have in common? We use the acronym R.A.C.E. when writing a constructed response in reading. All students should be able to tell you now what those letters stand for and how we use them. REMINDERS: - This Thursday is picture day. Even if you aren't ordering individual pictures we will have our class picture taken and you might like to order one. Target will come back to class during picture time and then return to Target. -Friday is Walk to School day. I hope we will have great class participation again! It is such a healthy way to start the day. -The multiplication test on Friday will include the 9s tables, so please help your child practice. Each child should complete Xtra Math at least one day this week. Students doing will extra days be rewarded with bonus bucks. NEXT WEEK: Math - Students will learn how to determine the perimeter of polygons and practice deciding which operation to use when reading a word problem. Language Arts - As well as listening to the remaining speeches, students will have fun finishing and publishing their opinion pieces. We will go to the computer lab on Tuesday so students can type their piece. Hopefully, they will finish by the end of the week and can upload them to See Saw for you to read. Learning about which conjunction to use in a sentence, inferring answers in the text, and learning to write an extended response in reading will fill our language arts blocks this week. Of course, we always leave time for independent reading. The best way to develop a great reader is to make sure they have a just right book and time to read it! PLEASE make sure this is happening at home, too. Science - Our class book A to Z through Georgia is almost finished! As a class we brainstormed important animals, plants, and features of Georgia - several items for each letter of the alphabet. Each student has a letter and is creating a page for our book. You will enjoy reading this during our Author's Tea/Poetry Coffeehouse in May. I hope you all enjoyed the beautiful weather with your families this weekend.
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