REGISTRATION DEADLINE: End of day 2 days before each conference day To pick a time slot, enter this link in your internet browser: www.ptcfast.com/reg1 At that link, you will be asked for your Entry Code, where you should enter 06M136835 I look forward to seeing you at the conference. A look at our week: Words Their Way: At the top of your child’s sort, coming home Monday, you will see the pattern they are studying for the week. Helpful notes: “v” stands for vowel “c” stands for consonant If there is the category named, “Oddball” it is a category for a word in the sort that does not follow the pattern. Some sorts do not have category headings bolded or even category headings at all. I’m honestly not sure why some weeks there are apparent headings, and some weeks not. But, I will make sure students know the headings when this happens. Language Arts: Read Alouds: “Stellaluna”, “Spiders” by Gail Gibbons Skills: generating questions about what they know before, during, and after reading, text features help readers build meaning, comparing and contrasting fiction and nonfiction Theme: readers of nonfiction understand that reading to learn information is often a slower more deliberate process than reading fiction for enjoyment. In writing, we are learning about informative text. Students continue writing bat reports. We continue to work on how to construct a paragraph—topic sentence, at least 3 details, closing sentence. Students will also working on their creative Halloween story! We’re really focusing on making a good beginning, middle, and end. Math: Students continue subtraction practice. This week they’ll learn regrouping in ones, tens, and hundreds. By the end of the week, they’ll begin to learn subtraction across zeros.
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: End of day 2 days before each conference day To pick a time slot, enter this link in your internet browser: www.ptcfast.com/reg1 At that link, you will be asked for your Entry Code, where you should enter 06M136835 I look forward to seeing you at the conference. A look at our week: Words Their Way: At the top of your child’s sort, coming home Monday, you will see the pattern they are studying for the week. Helpful notes: “v” stands for vowel “c” stands for consonant If there is the category named, “Oddball” it is a category for a word in the sort that does not follow the pattern. Some sorts do not have category headings bolded or even category headings at all. I’m honestly not sure why some weeks there are apparent headings, and some weeks not. But, I will make sure students know the headings when this happens. Language Arts: Read Alouds: “Stellaluna”, “Spiders” by Gail Gibbons Skills: generating questions about what they know before, during, and after reading, text features help readers build meaning, comparing and contrasting fiction and nonfiction Theme: readers of nonfiction understand that reading to learn information is often a slower more deliberate process than reading fiction for enjoyment. In writing, we are learning about informative text. Students continue writing bat reports. We continue to work on how to construct a paragraph—topic sentence, at least 3 details, closing sentence. Students will also working on their creative Halloween story! We’re really focusing on making a good beginning, middle, and end. Math: Students continue subtraction practice. This week they’ll learn regrouping in ones, tens, and hundreds. By the end of the week, they’ll begin to learn subtraction across zeros.
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