Monday, September 14th, 2015

Today was a very productive, challenging, and fun day!!!

We started our morning with our Daily 5.  Students had the option of 'Reading to Self', 'Buddy Reading', 'Writing', or 'Word Work'.  During this time I was able to work with a number of small groups with guided reading and word work.  We are incorporating the "Words Their Way" approach for spelling.

After Daily 5 the students had an opportunity to finish up some assignments that we have been working on over the past couple of weeks.  

HOMEWORK FOR THIS WEEK!!!!!

During the past two days students have been seeking out letters in their name within the classroom, hallways, outside, or within nature.  If the students have not been able to complete finding of their letters in their name and taking a picture of those letters they have been asked to finish this assignment at home.  Once they have taken a picture of their letters they can be emailed to me.  This part of the assignment needs to be completed by Thursday so we can start the next part Friday involving computers.  The following are some examples of the letters in Mrs. Quilley:

Y

i

S

Y

Q

During the afternoon we continued to explore the world of patterns in mathematics.  After math the students continued to work on their "How to Be Me" writing assignment, some of the students have decided to bring home this assignment to finish.  PLEASE BRING BACK YOUR WRITING JOURNALS!!!!!!  We discussed as a class what strategies we need in order to improve our writing (for example, capital letters, punctuation, juicy words, complete sentences, etc.).

Scholastic orders are due Wednesday, September 16th, 2015.  If you would like to order a book, magazine, etc. please submit your order by Wednesday.

Some of the students are confused about the afternoon snack... I'm sorry for this!!!  As a class we have discussed some examples for afternoon snacks.  These are some examples... bananas, muffin, apple, cheese stick, granola bar, grapes, etc.  We just want to make sure that the snack isn't messy, or taking away from our work.

Finally, Meet the Teacher Evening will be open to parents to book their session on Wednesday, September 16th.  During the first 15 minutes parents are to meet in the gym then followed by meet the teacher and explore our school for 40 minutes.