Tuesday

A recap of day 11  of learning together...

Our schedule: 

Our learning targets for all students: 

• Finish publishing all about me newspapers, including a paragraph about a life event
• Enjoy reading with a buddy; identify connections to literature/informational texts
• Organize writer's notebook; list things I can write about; list true stories from my life I would like to tell
• Enjoy a chapter book read aloud to you over time.

Our read aloud book: 

Crenshaw by Katherine Applegate

Our songs:

Count On Me
If I Had A Million Dollars

Our day in review: 

Today, third grade math wrapped up our thinking about the patterns in this shape puzzle. We learned that it has been explored by mathematicians for over 2600 years since the time of Pythagoras and his associates in Greece! We also learned that we can show our thinking in the timeless, universal language of mathematics. Fourth grade math did lessons 1-1 and 1-2 from their books, on place value.

We are finishing publishing our newspaper posters. Some students still need a 5h"x4w" photo of themselves! Kids who are done read with buddies. We all organized our writer's notebook and used labels to title the first few important pages, and numbered some pages. We also read from Crenshaw. Ask your child to tell you about the story and how we're feeling empathy for the main character, Jackson.

Our planner:

Looking ahead, it is our goal that all our students srart the NWEA reading test this week. We will not test Thursday or Friday. We have planned several morning blocks, chunking testing time to no more than 45 minutes each session. Not every child tests each session; we rotate between testing and instructional activities. This is the beginning of our reading testing; in the coming weeks, we will be sitting one on one with each student to listen to them read aloud and have a comprehension discussion about what they read. This takes us several days, not consecutive, to accomplish, and when your child has read with us, that day we send them home with a paper telling you their scores.