The kids are reading silently right now before we go out for recess. Earlier, they wrote letters to you, their parents, to be read at Meet the Teacher Night. They will be leaving their journals out tonight and should have the page marked for you to turn to.
Earlier we did some work with maps in Social Studies (maps are always a little bit tedious for some--including me, I will admit). At least we were able to go through and look at the map and discuss the qualities of a map and how to use a legend. This was echoed from a lesson we did in Reading today as well.
As for the rest of Reading, we are currently looking at the short vowel sounds, we're reading about the history of the United States (in particular, the Revolutionary War), and we've read about Paul Revere and John Hancock. I'm currently reading the kids the book Qwerty Stevens: Back in Time With Benjamin Franklin by Dan Gutman.
In Math, we're learning about factors and factor trees, etc. Today, however, we will be taking the beginning of the year Math test so that we can figure out just where we are to get the year started. We are almost done with the beginning of the year testing!
Looking forward to seeing everyone tonight at 7:30 sharp. They cut us off right at 8:15, so we need to get started as close to 7:30 as possible. See you then!
2 comments:
"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."
I saw this quote and thought of you. Thank you for being such a wonderful teacher, we sure do miss Vaughn being in your class and the "simplicity" of elementary school.
Vaughn sais hello and will email you his stop-action film he made over the summer.
Take care and thanks again for all you do... Erin & Karl (and Vaughn)
Such a nice compliment! Thank you. Hope Vaughn is doing well in middle school. I'd love to see the film!
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