We survived the week... barely! This was our "roughest" week yet (behaviorally). To be honest, I am struggling to find an effective way to curb the amount of chatting that is occurring during my instruction and during out reading rotation time. The constant chatter is making it difficult for me to teach, as well as difficult for other students to learn. Hopefully we will be back on track next week, as I have seen their fabulous potential in previous weeks. I'm sure this last week was merely a "hiccup" along our journey this school year. Anyways, please talk to your child to see if his/her thoughts regarding our classroom noise (and to ask if they may be part of the problem ;)).
Here is a picture of Tyler and his geiko, Simon!
This picture doesn't do justice to one of our classmate's cool eye. He has an eye that is multi-colored. Ask your student if they know who it is!
I loved Dylan's shirt: "Sing the song in your heart."
Travis is quite the artist! I always love to see what he creates!
Our essential question in reading this week is: How do landmarks help us understand our country's story? We will read the stories "A Mountain of History," "A Landmark Street," and "A Natural Beauty." All the stories this week will be the genre of expository texts. We will work on the skills of: asking and answering questions in a text, main idea vs. details, multiple meaning words, and compound words. All of our spelling words this week have long o sounds.
Here are this week's vocabulary words and definitions:
In math, we will continue on in Chapter 3: Understanding Multiplication. Last week we worked on making equal groups, using repeated addition, and skip counting to solve multiplication problems. This week we will work on some problem solving strategies with multiplication, modeling with arrays, understanding the commutative property of multiplication, and multiplying with zero and one.
On Friday we celebrated Sam's birthday with a treat and a craft. Sam is such an intelligent, hard-working, funny young man. We are lucky to have him in our class! Happy Birthday, Sam!
On Monday we will celebrate another amazing student: Laurel!
It also happens to be my Bennett's birthday, which makes me blink and wonder how these cute kids grow up so fast. The past three years have simply FLOWN by! Slow down, time!!!
Bennett's birthday requests: a chocolate donut, a pet squirrel or rabbit, a real tractor, and a drum set. We'll see what he gets (hint: only one of his wishes will become a reality) ;)
Code Word = Chatty Cathy
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