Update from Ms. Luria

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September 
Monday, 15th - All About Me poster is due
Monday, 15th - 2:00 September birthday celebration
Wednesday 17th - Late start
Thursday 18th - Back to School night

Dear Families,

Thank you for such a great turn out during back to school night. This week we continued our IB unit on "How we organize ourselves."

Thank you to everyone who brought in international money for us to investigate. We will be using it in the next few weeks! 

Weekly Volunteer times still available: 

• Tuesday between 10:45 - 11 to do writing conferences with students (I'll show you how to do that). 
• Tuesdays between 1:45 and 3 to do science experiments with students - help set up the experiment, help clean up and general help with the experiments
• Wednesday between 10 - 11 to either help with a reading group or do writing/reading conferences with students
• Fridays between 10 - 11 to either help with a reading group or do writing/reading conferences with students

This week's focus:

Reading-

*We read an informational article about bartering!

*We learned about the narrator and if a story/article is first person or third person.

Writing-

*Started coming up with a list of writing ideas.

*Learned how to set up our writing notebook.          

Math-

*Learned subtraction strategies

*Created patterns and found the rules in patterns

*Introduced to the idea of division by 3's

Social Studies-

*Dollars and cents- we had a wonderful talk from Stuart (Bibi's family) all about money from around the world. 
*We played a game about bartering and learned why bartering doesn't always work

Important note: Please wear gym clothes on Fridays.

Have a wonderful weekend!