Interactions! (Oct. 19-23)

Hi Everyone,
I hope all of you had a pleasent weekend and rested up for another week of school. We are coming close to the end of our 1st quarter. Hard to beleieve that we've been in school a total  of 39 days...Time does Fly!
Here is a list of what our class will be working on.

**End of Quarter Test. Yes, it's that time of year again where we are having to take the EOQs and assess the students on their reading and math skills for the 1st quarter. Quarter testing will be on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. We will be holding off on Reading and Math instruction since we are going to be working with the test. Please remember to be on time to school during these testing days.

Reading: We started Stone Fox by looking at some differences between North Carolina and Wyoming. The students were introduced to a new state that we really didn't know anything about. On Friday we are going to start reading the story and applying sequenceing and Main Idea.

Math: We are continuing to look at multiplying 2-digit by 2-digit. The students are slowing getting the process and we continue to work on it in class. Keep practicing at home and get better. Practice makes perfect.

Writing: The students are finishing up there Writing menus in class. The final due date for the menus is October 28th. No late projects will be accepted since we've been working on this for the past 2 weeks. I have seem some great items that the students have been working on. I am really impressed by some of their creativity.

Science: This week we will be working on Science and learning a bit about Static Electricity. We will work on different aspects and how it applys to the everyday life. We will try to have a few grades for science to put on the Report Cards for the end of the quarter.

Spelling words for this week are:  follow, matter, summer, million dollar, scissors, cattle, address, office, suppertime, blizzard, penny, wrapper, wallet, occurrence, village, collide, battle
The words this week all deal with double syllables (letters)