Tues. October 2nd

Thank you to all of you who brought your permission slips in today and to those who signed up to drive! We have enough drivers for the all students to attend the trip :)

Today in class we work with fact families and subtraction stories.  The kids are GREAT at addition stores (how many in all?) but are having a hard time remembering that "how many are left" and "how many more ___'s than ___'s" are subtractions stories.  They tend to always want to add! We made a list of words that are used for addition and words that are used for subtraction to help us remember.  We will continue to work on this!

In writing we wrote a fiction story to help us prepared for the Grosse Pointe Writing Practice Test.  Fiction stories have to have  characters, a setting, a problem and a solution.  The students are also going to be graded on capitalization and punctuation. 

In science we observed our caterpillars and can't WAIT for them to turn into butterflies.  They are currently hanging from the top of the butterfly cage  :)

PICTURE DAY IS TOMORROW! The form for that was in your orange folder last Friday.  Whether you are purchasing or not, your child's picture will still be taken for the yearbook :)