Monday, August 30, 2010

Here's What We're Doing...August 30-Sept. 3

Hello everyone,
I hope that all of you had a great weekend.
I am please to announce that we have had a fantastic start to our 2010/2011 School year. The kids are working hard and are showing their Gibson PRIDE!!!!! Awesome Job, guys!


Here is a quick look at what we will be working on this week:


Math: Finding the Place and Value of numbers, comparing numbers and putting them in order. We are also going to be working on Rounding/Estimating. This is a hard concept for some students so we will be practicing A LOT.


Reading: Since we still have not received the Imagine It reading series for our classes, we are working on "The Twits" by Roald Dahl. The students really enjoy reading this because it has funny plots and twist to the story. We will hopefully have this chapter title finished by the end of the week.


Social Studies: Our social studies is focusing on the 3 regions of North Carolina. We are also looking at the geography of NC and how it's different from where we live.


The spelling list for this week will focus on using -ed and -ing suffixes. We will also discuss root words and the changes that have to be made for them to make sense.
LIVED, LIVING, RATTLED, RATTLING, STUDIED, STUDYING, TRAVELED, TRAVELING, CHANGED, CHANGING, APPEARED, APPEARING, RACED, RACING, HOPED, HOPING, WRAPPED & WRAPPING.

AR is up and running so please encourage your child to READ, READ, READ!

Thursday, August 26, 2010

Homework for August 26th

Hey Everyone,
Here is a little bit of what we're doing for homework. Next week will start our bigger routine with homework/planners and updates to the blog.
We have had an awesome first couple of days. Our class is very well behaved and is showing GREAT Gibson P.R.I.D.E.

Homework for tonight is:
Reading: 20 Mins
Math: 10 expanded/standard problems

Couple of things to follow:
Please make sure homework is done in pencil.
Remember to PUT YOUR NAME ON YOUR PAPER.