Friday, September 20, 2013

Busy Minion News - Week of Sept. 13th



  This Week  We made it through our first whole week!  Yay!  We did it!  We enjoyed “The Adventures of Ali Baba Bernstein” in reading this week.  Students learned some new Work Plan choices like the Wordless Story and Reader’s Theater fluency practice.  Everyone worked hard at completing the various choices of the Work Plan.  We also worked hard on comparing numbers, place value, adding review, and tackled rounding to different place values (that was a little confusing)!  We are finishing up our Tree Ring projects and starting our NH Regions project.  We have also started the Reading Dibels testing, as well as the Math Dibels. 

Next Week  For Literacy next week, we will read the nonfiction selection “Kid Reporters At Work.”  We will work on looking at the elements of nonfiction articles and the structure of compound sentences.   In Math, we will review the skills of Unit 1 to get ready for the test at some point in the week.  We will review place value, rounding, number patterns, adding, and subtracting.  We are going to be starting to do the writing to our NH Regions Picturing Writing project.  Please continue to work on the NH County Map Project at home. (Reminder - To allow your family time to work on the project during the long term project time frame, our regular homework will consist of the spelling practice, reading independently, and possibly occasional math practice.  Good luck with the project!  Have fun.)