November

Hello! I apologize for not writing weekly. What an extremely busy start to the school year! Now that the assessments are completed as well as conferences, perhaps I can keep my promise of writing weekly. :-)

I sent home my monthly newsletter on Monday. Please let me know if you would like another copy.

We are cruising in writing. Today we worked on "what you do when you think you are done." Students have a checklist they need to follow at the end of each story. Some of the items on there include: re-reading your writing, checking for appropriate capitals as well as punctuation and spelling. We still need to write a dedication page, about the author and create a cover.

In reading the students are working on choosing appropriate books at their level called, "Good fit books" and reading them during Read to Someone and Read to Self. Also, we work on Word Work. Tomorrow the students will sort their words into their notebooks to prepare for their spelling test.

We are starting a new unit in math. We are on Unit 4. Students are learning the multiple ways of adding as well as looking at temperature.

Last, we are doing an author study to prepare us for our field trip on November 17th. We are studying Tomie dePaola.

I hope you are all staying healthy and are enjoying these beautiful days left of Fall.