Friday, September 26, 2014

Update from Ms. Luria

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Dear Families,

Happy First Days of Fall! I hope that you are staying healthy and enjoying the cooler weather. This week we continued our IB unit on "How we organize ourselves."

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 interesting story about what a million dollars would look like in different types on currency.
*We learned about strategies to use when we are confused by what we are reading.

Writing-
*Started talked about how writers focus in on small events.
*Continued to write modifying our adjectives, nouns and verbs. Ask you child to show the hand motions for those words!     

Math-
*Practiced our subtraction strategies
*Learned some great games for building fluency with subtraction
*Learned how to find patterns using a calculator. Ask you child what would happen if you press 19 + 3 and then keep on pressing the = sign! 

Social Studies and Science-
*Dollars and cents- learned all about the US mint and how coins are made in the US. 
*We did an experiment on cleaning pennies and found what what works best to clean them in the short term. Ask your child about how the pennies looked the day after they were cleaned! 
*We continued to talk about bartering.

Important note: Please wear gym clothes on Fridays.

Have a wonderful weekend!

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