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Monday	March 8th
Literacy	We worked on summarizing a paragraph from our anthology.  The sheet we worked on was sent home today.
Math	We started the Chapter on Data and Probability.  Fun!!!!
Writing	We worked on our stories and are probably going to see some folks start finishing this week.
Other	Social Studies:  Our chapter title is "How Are We Alike Around the World". We watched one part of the series Families of the World. We saw how a nine year old girl lived a day in Ho Chi Minh City.  Tomorrow we'll learn about a different girl who lives on the Mekong River.  I would highly recommend this series.  the Corvallis Library has the entire series.
Other	We earned another Class Act in Music today.
Homework	1. Work on Multiplication Facts, at least, 20-30 minutes every evening.  Quiz on Thursday.
	This was the results of our Heads and Tails activity in which we flipped two pennies 50 times for each partner group.  this is the total class results.  The questions is...Why is HT almost twice the number outcomes than HH or TT? Discuss
Attention!	The Fraction Chapter Test was sent home today.  Fraction is the most abstract of all the chapters in the text.  The results of the test definitely reflect the level of abstraction.  Some children are abstract thinkers by third grade and others are still moving into that stage.  That's the context for evaluating your child's score on the test.

 

Tuesday	March 9th
Literacy	Worked on summarizing another paragraph.
Math	Talked about Line Plots.  We created two line plots in the classroom.  the first was looking at how many activities, sports & lessons, that students were part of outside of school. the range was 8 and the mode was 2.  After that we asked the question, "I wonder what kind of activities students are involved in?"  For this we made a second line plot.  This time we created categories across the bottom such as Team Sports, Game Clubs, Art, Dance, DI, Music Lessons, Individual Lessons...etc.  Ask which category had was the highest number.
Writing	We wrote some more on our stories.  Adelaide, Zach and Alyssa shared their stories.
Social Studies	We watched a DVD about a family that lived on the Mekong River in Vietnam.  Ask about their unusual store.
Other	Library and PE  5 students finished up their OAKS testing.
Homework	1. Work on Multiplication Facts, at least, 20-30 minutes every evening.  Quiz on Thursday.

 

Thursday	March 11th
Literacy	Introduced another method of buddy reading.  Each person only reads one sentence and the other person reads the next and so on.  At the end of a paragraph both stop and talk about what they just read.  Not a method for winning reading races but a great method for slowing down and improving comprehension.
Math	Computation Quiz.  We took it!  Many students showed a lot of progress!  Keep up the good work!  Many students progressed to the next level.  Mr. Traylor said that if the entire class masters the multiplication tables, he will buy the class a special treat.  Another good reason to keep truckin'.
Writing	I presented a lesson on Sentence Fluency.  SF means that sentences are varied in length, and structure.  Students brought home the sheet that contained part of the lesson.  Please look it over with your child and have them explain it to you.
Other	Buddy Reading with 1/2 buddies
Social Studies	Saw a video on Thailand. this child lived in Bangkok, Thailand's largest city.  Ask your child about the floating market place.
Homework	1.  Examine corrected Computation Quiz.  Which problems were missed?  What do you need to work on? 2. Work on Multiplication Facts, at least, 20-30 minutes every evening.  Quiz next Thursday. 3. Students brought home a Sentence fluency sheet that contained part of the lesson.  Please look it over with your child and have them explain it to you. 4.  Students also brought home an Inference Sheet.  Please ask your child to talk about that sheet also.

 

Friday	March 12th
Literacy
Math
Writing
Other
Other
Homework

 

Monday	March 15th
Literacy	Started reading Trapped By The Ice.  Sir Ernest Shackleton
Math	Ordered pairs.  Remember the 1st number is across and the second is up or down.  Students brought home some 1 quadrant and 4 quadrant paper.
Writing	Introduced students to a writing scoring guide for sentence fluency.  They read a short writing piece and we scored it as partners and then defended about our scores.  Students did surprisingly well for the first tie using a guide.
Other
Other	School Spirit Day: Stuffed Animal Day is Thursday
Homework	1. Hurkle Game.  One person thinks of where the Hurkle is hiding and the other person guesses with ordered pairs.  After each guess, the hider has to give a hint of the direction in which the Hurkle is hiding. 2.  We have 10 students who are working on multiplication tables.  Work really hard this week!!!!!  We will have the last computation quiz before Spring Break. Go for it!!

 

Tuesday	March 16th
Literacy	We summarized the first paragraph of Trapped by Ice.  The sheet we worked on should have come home tonight to talk over the process with you.
Math	We did 2 story problems using a T table to help us.  Then we put the numbers on the T table into a graph.  The graph helped us to make projections.  the 2 problems should have come home tonight to talk over with you.
Writing	Students had the choice of working on their imaginary stories or writing about something that is really important to them.  We shared several with the class.
Drama
Other
Homework	1. Study for Computation Quiz!!!!!! 2. I sent home 2 math papers and one writing paper to discuss at home.  they are stapled together.  Please sign the top and send it back to school.

 

Wednesday	March 17th
Literacy	We read a little more on Trapped by Ice and I presented a graphic for the class to think about how they might summarize the story.
Math	Part of the class worked on mathematical palindromes using a hundreds chart.  The other part work on a Quick Check Quiz to see how we are doing on this chapter so far.
Math	We also went conducted our own survey in the lunchroom today.  Ask us about it.
Writing	We chose what to write about.  Many students shared their writing before the class.
Drama	We watched Cinderella in the gym.  Excellent production.  Good model for the class before starting our production.
Other	Stuffed Animal Day is tomorrow - for real
Homework	Study for Computation Quiz  tomorrow!  Let's move ahead before Spring Break!

Thursday	March 18th
Literacy	Summarized a paragraph from Trapped by Ice.  the summary was sent home
Math	Computation Quiz - Quizzes were sent home.
Writing	Choices
Drama
Other	Stuffed Animal Day / Birthday celebration  / Read with Reading Buddies.
Homework	Go over results of quiz and set study goals for Spring Break. Go over summary from Trapped by Ice.  Let student explain process.

Friday	March 19th
Literacy	Students read booklets and answered questions and composed a summary of the story
Math	We finished graphs from our lunchtime survey.  We shared our graphs with Mrs. Morgan and she shared how she makes decisions in the kitchen
Writing
Drama
Other
Homework	Work on that computation!!!!

Have a Great Spring Break!

Monday	March 29th
Literacy
Math
Writing
Drama
Other
Homework

Tuesday	March 30th
Literacy
Math
Writing
Drama
Other
Homework

Wednesday	March 31st
Literacy
Math
Writing
Other
Other
Homework

Thursday	April 1st
Literacy
Math
Writing
Other
Other
Homework

Friday	April 2nd
Literacy
Math
Writing
Drama
Other
Homework