Dear Families,
Fall
has come with a vengeance! I am so glad
the wind did not pick up until after the children were finished with P.E. this
week. I wouldn’t want them blowing
away!!! Please remember that there is NO
SCHOOL on FRIDAY, November 11th.
Sorry about the confusion with spelling this week. If it is a short week (anything less than 5
days), we will not do spelling. We do not
want to make it more stressful on children when they have less time to
study. Thank you to all of the families
who spent time in the book fair. I know
that all the children were excited to get their new books and I love my new
books too!!
We
had another busy week in the classroom.
In writing, we started working on editing a story so that we can publish
it. Wednesday, the children read their
stories to a friend to get more ideas on what they should add. We will continue to work on this for the next
couple of weeks. We continued to talk
about poetry and in Social Studies we compared two books about being president. We looked at the election map and discussed
the different types of information you can find in a map. We also started making maps of the garden in
groups! Next week we will compare how
they are different. We talked about
elections and the qualities that make a good president. In math, we are working on the last section
of unit 3. This section looks at larger
numbers and accuracy in counting. It
also looks at place value and how to represent it. I just graded the last assessment on word
problems and the children have made great progress on writing out their answers
and explaining their thinking, now we just have to attend to precision. There were many simple mistakes that they may
have caught if they rechecked their work.
I am excited how well they are coming along.
This
week’s homework is not due until Tuesday, November 22nd. We will have spelling this week and then we
will take the two days off before Thanksgiving and start again the Monday after
Thanksgiving holidays.
Have
a great long weekend!
Mrs.
Berk