Thank you for another amazing week. We made it through a lot this week, even though we only had four days!
Weekly Recap
In reading, we closed up text to text, text to self, and text to world ideas, and worked on reading with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension; a skill we will work on all year. We also finished our first round of strategies for learning multiplication facts through 12. In writing, we worked on our final draft of our first published writing. We also learned that magnets are weird and we created our own bridges out of paper! After creating our bridges, we added weight and revised our designs to make them stronger. The kids had a great time!
This week, we will also start moving through our reading centers. Each day we will practice one of our centers while continuing to build upon previously learned concepts.
In math, we will work on strategies for solving multiplication facts. We will also work on multiplication fluency throughout the week. Please encourage your students to practice their multiplication facts. This is the foundation for 3rd grade mathematics and when students get behind in multiplication facts, it can cause them to approach more difficult application problems with less confidence. When they are confident, they’ll try anything!
Homework Change
Our class has started a 40 book challenge in Classcraft. As they finish a certain number of books as a table, they will gain XP and gold, and move onto another task. For this reason, I will not have students log reading nightly. They have the option of doing paper or electronic homework every night, which they do need to log.
Upcoming Important Dates:
9/9-9/13 Fall Book Fair
9/11 – Gamewright Game Night (Please come and join me!)
9/13 – Grandparents Breakfast (Thank you PTA!)
9/18 – Open House
9/19 – Pirate Day
This week’s homework: 2019-09-09 Homework
Ms. B. in Class 