Holey Pumpkin Day was a "pumpkin-ey" success! Thank you so much to those who helped us create our pumpkin lanterns, played games with us and visited! We spent time designing our lanterns and then with the wonderful help of our parents we were able to drill them and light them up while we enjoyed our healthy snacks! We had a great day of learning despite all of our excitement for trick-or-treating! I hope everyone had a fun and safe trick-or-treating night!
Reading
This week we continued to look for descriptive words in our "just right" books but we also extended our thinking to looking for words from our word sorts. We are carefully monitoring our own reading. When we carefully monitor our own reading, we record our thinking on sticky notes and begin to think deeply about each page of our text. This is a learned skill but the students are doing very well so far! We are also beginning to dive into our next unit of exploring non-fiction text!
Writing
We have started writing our narratives and it is so powerful to see how planning our thoughts with a graphic organizer can truly help us with our writing. The students are loving this unit and it is so amazing to watch them write stories with their own personal flare. We have been working on making sure our narratives are complete with important story elements such as- characters, setting, a problem and a solution. Some students are even working on having their story teach a valuable lesson- how awesome is that?!
Math
We just wrapped up Unit 2. We continue to work on explaining and writing our thinking for math problems. Now that we have learned about different strategies to use for addition and subtraction, we are realizing with independence which strategies work best for us. Please remember to practice math facts at home!
Dragonfly News
Parent-Teacher conferences begin this week! I look forward to meeting with all of you! November 5th is an early release day for conferences, please mark your calendars! There is no school Friday, November 6th because it is a teacher workshop day. Thank you again for sending in snacks and helping with Holey Pumpkin Day. We will have other volunteer opportunities coming up! In December we will be making ginger bread houses! Book orders have shipped and should be arriving soon, for those of you who are awaiting orders! November is going to fly by because it is a short academic month so please stay connected with the blog so you don't miss any important dates!
Dragonfly News
Parent-Teacher conferences begin this week! I look forward to meeting with all of you! November 5th is an early release day for conferences, please mark your calendars! There is no school Friday, November 6th because it is a teacher workshop day. Thank you again for sending in snacks and helping with Holey Pumpkin Day. We will have other volunteer opportunities coming up! In December we will be making ginger bread houses! Book orders have shipped and should be arriving soon, for those of you who are awaiting orders! November is going to fly by because it is a short academic month so please stay connected with the blog so you don't miss any important dates!
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