Sunday, August 26, 2012

August 25, 2012

We had a great week.

We jumped into school head first. It has been a challenging week, but we finished the week with flying colors.

We started building stamina for Daily 5 Read to Self, the kids can read for 7 minutes at a time. We also learned that there are 3 ways to read a book: 1) Read the pictures, 2) Retell a familiar story, 3) Read the words. This week we are going to start building stamina for Daily 5 Work on Writing this week. I can't wait!



In math we started building number sense, and learning behaviors during our math instruction. Homework comes home nightly and needs to be returned each morning.






Their first spelling test on Friday was an adventure, but we managed to get through it pretty well. After this week, they will be test taking pros.

Friday afternoon, even after a long week at school, so many students were working super hard that we had about 8 students end the day on "Outstanding."

This week we will be learning about neighborhoods in social studies. 

This is going to be a great year!