Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Tuesday Oct 15th

Yesterday Miss Wortham left early and we didn't get to finish our blog post.

On Monday we started a new writing unit.  4th graders are studying brochures.  3rd graders are studying narrative non-fiction.  We created a definition for both and looked in our books for features that all our mentor books had in order.

Today in math 3rd graders worked on rounding to the nearest 10 and 100.  No homework tonight.
4th graders started working on division.

In reading we worked on reading informational text and drawing generalizations from our reading.  Ask your student what an inference is and how they can use them to make generalizations.


Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Wednesday Oct 9th

Today was terrific!

In reading:  we sorted our questions from yesterday's reading into three categories:  surface questions, middle questions, and deep questions.

In writing:  We worked on our published copies for Friday.

In math: 4th graders worked on solving 2 digit by 2 digit multiplication using the standard algorithm.
3rd graders worked on using the 1,000 book to solve addition and subtraction problems.

Tonight:  look for parent teacher conference forms AND 3rd grade has math homework.  Unit 3 pg 9 and 12. 4th grade needs to practice multiplication facts for 10 minutes.




Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Monday Oct 8

It was a nice, calm long weekend.  We had a great Tuesday!

Today we learned how to use dialogue in our writing pieces.  We have also started publishing our pieces.

In reading, we asked questions before, during, and after we read in an informational text.  We will be working on asking deeper questions all week.

In math, 3rd graders made a 1,000 book and labeled important numbers. 4th graders worked on 2 digit by 2 digit multiplication.

Many parents have signed up for conferences.  Thank you for your fast reply!  Tomorrow a new note with remaining slots will go home.

Tomorrow Mama Wortham comes to visit and work with us on our math.

TONIGHT:  3rd grade has extra homework Unit 3 pg 5.

Have a great night!

Tuesday, October 1, 2013

We're back and in the swing of things!  After my absence on Friday, and catching everything up on Monday we are ready to roll!  Today in math we worked on creating number posters.  Each number poster talked about arrays, factors, word problems, and numerical expressions.  Many groups did not get to finish because they were arguing about their numbers.

In writing 4th graders worked on putting in dialogue for the closing of their realistic fiction piece.

In writing 3rd graders worked on how to edit for spelling.

In reading we read in a scientific text, and we read for concepts.

We took a math C.F.A and got to check our own work with highlighters!  Most students passed with flying colors!!!!!

Don't forget there is a PTA meeting tonight!!!!!