Good Afternoon!
We had a fantastic first full week of school here in room 10. We spent more time getting to know each other, the room and classroom routines. This morning we celebrated the 200th anniversary of The Star Spangled Banner! Great Works was all decked out in red, white and blue. We also had our first popcorn sale of the year. Students were able to buy popcorn today at lunch. Students will need to listen to announcements to hear when the next popcorn sale will be. Popcorn costs 25 cents per bag.
This week…
In Math, we started Unit 1: Number Theory. This unit focuses on reviewing multiplication facts, factors, divisibility and prime factorization. Students will be receiving their Everyday Math user names and passwords soon, we are having a bit of a glitch getting started with our new technology this year. I hope to have them on the computers next week!
During our Literacy block, we began our first Spelling unit, we read our first short story during Reading and launched our first Unit of Study, Personal Narrative, in Writing. This week in Reading we read The No Guitar Blues by Gary Soto. During class, we talked about what good readers do when they are reading (they ask questions!) and shared questions we may have had while we listened to the story. In writing, we did a few writing prompts in our notebook and generated some story idea using Turning Points (First time I did something, last time I did something and when I realized something). We have been writing, writing, writing!!
Our first unit in Social Studies will be Exploration. Right now, we are using our Social Studies time to practice using the technology we have in our classroom. We will be using Google Drive in our class a lot this year. Students will be practicing signing in, creating documents and presentations and using Khan Academy. We will also be continuing to practice our typing skills.
I will be updating the blog as often as I can throughout the year.
Upcoming Dates:
September 18th - Great Works Open House 6:30-7:40pm
September 26th - Walk to School Day
October 3rd/4th - Great Works Camp Out
October 13th - No School, Columbus Day
October 23rd and 29th - Parent Teacher Conferences
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