Thursday April 30, 2015

Homework:

Math- Sheet 104, Week 13 or TTM 

Reading- Read for 30 minutes 

 

April 28, 2015

Homework
Math-sheet 102, week 13, or TTM
Read for at least 30 minutes.
If you owe any work you should work on it at home.

April 27, 2015

Homework
Math-sheet 101, week 13 or TTM
Read at least 30 minutes
Tomorrow and Wednesday are SBAC testing.  Please help your child get to bed early.  Breakfast will be provided to assure everyone has a good start to the day.

April 16, 2015

Once the students finish testing they can read or color until all students are finished.  Here is a student discovering Magic Eye!!

Homework is sheet 100, Week 12 or TTM
Read tonight and over break.  I will take a status of the class and expect to see progress when we get back.
The first Tuesday and Wednesday back we will finish testing.

April 15, 2015

Homework: 

Sheet 99 or Week 12 or TTM

Read 30 minutes 

April 14, 2014

The blog may be later than usual from now on due to me coaching Girls On Fire-previously Girls On The Run.  If you haven't subscribed to the blog you can do that on the page. You'll get an email around 2 a.m!
We start SBAC testing tomorrow.  Please help your child get to bed early and eat a good breakfast.  Breakfast will provided here as well.
Homework- sheet 98, Week 12, or TTM.
Read for a bit.  Get to bed early!!!!

4-10-15

SBAC testing starts next Wednesday!
We will test on Wednesday and Thursday. Testing will finish the week following vacation.
Here are a few pictures of the students making Maple Oatmeal Cookies for Project Sweet Talk.
Please visit our Picture of the Day blog.

April 9, 2015

Homework:
Math-sheet 96, Week 11, or TTM
Read for at least 30 minutes.
We read articles from Scholastic Scope today and practiced our "close" reading.  Close reading is careful reading and rereading of a text to understand the features and language used.  It is very useful, but very different than what we did when we were in school.  We are asking students to use higher level thinking earlier in their school careers so we need to give them lots of practice to use higher thinking when reading.  My school years pretty much asked me to read and find the answers in the text. Now we are asking students to read many texts, analyze the information, and then synthesize the information to form a conclusion.
Summarizing vs Synthesizing                    Here is a video showing the students reading.

April 8, 2015

Homework:
Math-sheet 95, Week 11, TTM
Read for at least 30 minutes
SBAC Testing starts next Wednesday and Thursday and we will finish after vacation.

April 7, 2015

Homework:
Math-Sheet 94, Week 11 or TTM
Read for at least 30 minutes.  We talked today about how reading is so important to being a strong learner.  The more developed your vocabulary the easier time you will have learning new things.  If your child hates to read, and we have a few in our room who do not like it, then expose him or her to different kinds of reading.  Newspapers, magazines, non-fiction, or biographies. Go to Barnes and Noble and browse through the different kinds of books.  I am always willing to help a child find a book he or she will enjoy.
Below are some pictures and videos from Project Sweet Talk.  We didn't work on our article today due to SBAC practice testing, but will work on it tomorrow.  SBAC testing starts next Wednesday.  Here is the schedule: SBAC Testing

April 6, 2015

Homework:
Math- sheet 93, Week 11 or TTM
Reading- Read DEAR book for at least 30 minutes.  I did a status of the class today and many of you were out of the loop on what you were reading.

We are collaborating on an article about Project Sweet Talk to submit to the Messenger.  Here is a video.  I will get pictures from Friday on tomorrow's blog.

4-2-15 Thursday homework

TTM

Sheet 92

Week 10

Read 30 minutes

Project sweet talk presentations tomorrow/Friday   9-11