November 14

Today was another amazingly productive day in Room 73.  This morning during guided reading we talked about the comprehension strategy which involves giving a re-tell of the information that has been read.  We also reviewed what we need to do when we encounter unfamiliar words.  Remember to re-read, read ahead and look at the pictures and captions.

During writer's workshop we continued to work on our personal and expository narratives.  We will be working on this for the next few days before we move onto fiction story writing.

In math we have started talking about Related Facts.  Please post the answer to the following question:  What are all the related facts of 5+4=9.  Also, we learned a new game called Subtraction War.  Here are the instructions.  Please have your child practice this game at home.  You can challenge your child by flipping over 4 cards and subtracting double digit numbers.

Subtraction “War”

What You Need:

·       ·  Deck of cards 

What You Do:

1.   Shuffle the deck of cards and deal them face down, giving each player an equal number of cards until the deck runs out. Each player keeps his cards in a stack. Assign picture cards, such as jacks, queens, and kings, a value of 10. Give aces a value of 1.

2.  Each player turns two cards face up, reads the number sentence and supplies the answer. For example, if your child draws a 5 and a 4, he says 5 - 4 = 1. If you draw a 7 and an 2, then your number sentence is 7-2 = 5. Because your result is larger, you win the four cards and you put them at the bottom of your pile.

3.  If each of you has a number sentence with the same answer, then it's war! At this point, you'll reverse the math "operation" and do an addition problem. Each player puts four cards face down and turns up two of them. The player with the sum wins all eight cards.

During inquiry we learned how to add music to our slideshow.  I would like to thank Tyson for helping learn to add animations to our slideshow.  This is the coolest thing ever.

The kids were really excited today because....... I may have just overwhelmed them with my amazing gymnastics ability.  I showed off my best cartwheel and roundoff.  The kids went crazy.  

Landmark Cinemas and Coco Brooks Pizza Fundraiser forms went home today.

Have a wonderful evening.