Water Bottles

Please feel free to send your child in with a water bottle to keep on their desk.  Our classroom can get quite toasty with the sun beaming in.

In Readers' Workshop, students are learning to make connections as they read.  This is another strategy to build up our reading stamina. There are three big connections that readers make: text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world.  Making these connections helps readers:

• understand how characters feel and read with empathy.
• understand motivations behind characters' actions.
• have a clearer picture in their head as they read thus making the reader more engaged.

In Writers' Workshop, we read Lester Laminack's personal narrative/memoir Saturdays and Teacakes. We read this text like writers, looking for and identifying elements of writer's craft that made his piece strong.

In Math Workshop, students continue to build on their understanding of place value.  This week we've broken up numbers into their place value parts using expanded notation (612 = 600 + 10 + 2), used word form to write numbers, and revisited how to draw and use base ten blocks.  In Math Expressions (our new math program), we refer to base ten drawings as the following: 

• 1000s = thousands bar
• 100s = hundreds box
• 10s = quick tens
• 1s = circles

Homework:

• Read 20 minutes

Reminders:

• Snacks: If possible, send your child to school with a healthy snack.  We have a late lunch.
• Water bottles: Students are allowed to keep a water bottle at their desk if they'd like.

• Picture Day is Monday, September 25.  Forms/envelopes were sent home Friday

Supplies:

Thank you,

Mrs. O'Neill