The students and I were talking today about how quickly the month of September has gone. It seems like we just got back to school, and yet one tenth of our year is already completed! September has been a very busy
month in room 23. We have spent a lot of
time in class establishing routines for Reader’s and Writer’s Workshops. The children have an excellent understanding
of how to choose just right books, and most have built their stamina to read
for at least 30 minutes without stopping. They have also created many seed ideas for
future writing projects. We have started
studying simple machines in science, and in social studies we have begun learning
about the Mayan civilization.
The children have been working hard
on math skills with the IXL program and have already spent a total of 79 hours
and 19 minutes performing 14,973 problems!
All of this time has been spent at home, and is a clear testament to their
strong work ethic. Some of the concepts
that we have covered in class that can be reinforced through IXL are place
value (sections A.1 and A.4), decimals (sections C.1, C.2, and C.3), addition
and subtraction (sections D.1, D.2, D.3, D.4, and D.10), addition and subtraction
of decimals (E.1 and E.2), and number theory (sections K.1, K.2, K.3, K.4, and
K.5).
The Living Wax Museum will be
assigned next week. Please look for the
guidelines in your child’s folder, and help them choose a biography that is
written at their reading level, and is interesting to them. The date of our presentation will be
Thursday, November 8, 2012. I look
forward to seeing you all then.
