Friday, January 7, 2011

As we have been reviewing math concepts, we took addition, subtraction, and multiplication timed tests this week. We timed ourselves to see how long it took for us to complete 50 problems of each! We are working on becoming more efficient and accurate at our facts. We also worked in partners to practice our multiplication facts!

We reviewed cursive Aa and Cc and learned how to write the letter Oo. We will continue to work on cursive writing. Feel free to practice at home, see the link (on the side of this page) to a website in which cursive handwriting sheets can be printed out for the students to practice at home.

During Science, the students were able to choose 2 of the following activities to complete:

• Read the moon/space facts from our sentence set
• Categorize the moon/space facts
• Read a book or books about space
• Plan a read aloud for the class
• Research a question from our list that we compiled (using the internet or books)

Ava shared a read aloud for us about what the moon is made of. Three other students prepared read alouds to share with the class on Monday.

This week we finished our Flat Stanley Mexico and Japan books. The students worked on writing a summary of the story they read. We are working on summarizing what we've read by picking out the most important points and writing them in our own words.

Next week we will begin our book club groups with student choice of books. One group will be reading Flat Stanley in Space while the other group will be reading Magic Tree House: Midnight on the Moon. We will continue to work on summarizing as well as developing different levels of questions as we work through these books!