Tuesday, September 10

Messages and Reminders:
Class agreements need to be signed and returned as soon as possible. If not returned tomorrow, another copy will go home in case the first one went missing. We have library tomorrow, so bring back last week's books if you took them home. Meet the teacher will be next Thursday, September 19. There will be two 45 minute sessions, one from 6:00 - 6:45 and one from 6:45 - 7:30. You can attend either one. Parent council pizza will be available that evening as well.

Morning recap:
Tuesday mornings we have music first thing. When we got back to class, we finished our name tags, photos frames, and bookmarks, and did quiet reading. During math, we began a review of place value since our baseline assessment showed most of us need some practice. As a class, we looked at various numbers and practiced how to say them and what each numeral was worth, and we compared numbers to determine which was greater. We also looked at base ten blocks and reviewed how to determine what number a given group of blocks represents. In our math journals, we made and filled in a place value chart and also practiced writing numbers in standard form (eg. 1265) and expanded form (eg. 1000 + 200 + 60 + 5). Then we learned a dice game called Number Building Battle and played it with a partner to practice some of these place value concepts.

In language arts and health, we continued talking about belonging. We read a picture book called The Invisible Boy and talked about how we can get important messages from seemingly simple books. We then completed a graphic organizer and explained what belonging is, what it looks like, feelings associated with it, and non-examples. If we finished early, we drew a picture or comic strip on the back to show belonging.

After gym, we kept working on our belonging task if we weren't done and played math games if all our work was finished.

Upcoming important dates:
Thursday, September 19 - Meet the teacher 6:00 - 7:30