Friday, March 9th

Thank you to our Mystery Reader-- Anthony's mom!! We had a great time with you today :)

New homework went home today.  There are NO Everyday Math pages in the homework this week because we are not ready to move onto the remainder of Unit 9.  I am spending some extra time with the kids reviewing some borrowing and carrying, as well as place value and more practice with FRACTIONS.  I don't want them moving on until we have mastered these concepts so I sent home some addition and subtraction practice for this week. Also, there is not Challenge list in spelling this week.  The list is all contractions and this is an important concept for all levels.

Today in class we practiced rhyming and made a " _______ in my pocket" modeled after the book "There's a Wocket in my Pocket" that our Mystery Reader (3rd grade teacher, Mrs. Davenport) read to us yesterday.  Ask your child what he/she created!

I didn't give the kids any important reminders for their daily behavior sheet today because I honestly couldn't think of any! Everyone is already signed up for conferences, I have all the field trip forms and $, we don't have anything new due, and there aren't any half days or schedule changes I could think of! I guess this means we can all just enjoy this low-key week :)

Wednesday, March 7

 Thank you to our mystery Reader, Mrs. Halty for coming today! We had a great time :)

In reading we talked about the difference between fiction and non-fiction and started writing a new fiction piece.  Ask your child to explain to you the difference between fiction and non-fiction tonight at home :)
In math we did some (more) fractions.  We compared fractions using fraction strips and then divided large groups of items into small parts and wrote fractions to represent the pictures we drew.

doing some math outside today!

Monday, March 5th

Today in class we finished our George Washington Project (that we worked on last week) and finished some work on the story "Horton Hatches the Egg."   We also got to watch the 10-minute movie of the book as a bonus :)  We have been working A LOT on "making pictures in our minds as we read" and have talked about the "TV in your mind where you imagine" how everything looks, how the characters act, how they talk, ect.

Tonight is the first night of the school-wide book Frindle!!! I hope you all enjoy reading Chapt. 1 aloud to your children :)  Remember, part of the goal is to get families reading together so include your other children, have a Grandparent do the reading, have a high school sibling read aloud to your 2nd graders, ect.  Do whatever works best for your family :)

Regular Day tomorrow!

Friday, March 2nd

Read-Across-America Day was a success in our classroom on Friday. The entire day was filled with fun activities for the kids and I hope they loved every minute!

Drinking SeussJuice!

We explored the SeussJuice with our 5 senses and used sensory words in our investigation

One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish Graphing

Green Eggs and Ham :)

We wrote our own "I do not like _____" poems with rhyming words.  Check out what your child wrote this weekend (it's in the orange folder!)

Writing the recipe for SeussJuice :)

NHS Students from Parcells came to our classroom to read us a book and play a rhyming game with us!! They also brought the kids a word search and a maze just for fun :)

We also had our first MYSTERY READER on Friday!! It was Carson's Dad!! I can't post the pic online but I will be hanging it up (with pics from all our mystery readers in March) at school so you can check them out when you come to conferences :)

Thursday, March 1

***PARENT READING WORKSHOP TONIGHT!! 6-8pm.

****Please read what I wrote yesterday and earlier in the week regarding conference forms and field trip info.


Today EVERY Family in Poupard received a new book!! The book is called Frindle and it is a chapter book that ALL families are going to be reading during the month of March.  Use this book as your "Reading Log" book All month.  This is a HUGE school-wide activity so please make time to participate with your child at home.

Today in class we visited the website Seussville.com Try it out at home!