November 1, 2019

We had some wild weather to welcome us to November!  The students were in awe of the waters that
had flooded the fields behind the playground.  Although, it didn't sound like the weather kept them
from celebrating Halloween. In class,  Miss Sloane created a very engaging Halloween lesson
incorporating geography. I hope the pumpkin globes made it home safely.  Each student identified
the continents and strategically placed them around the pumpkin to represent our world.  

Reading groups continue to use comprehension strategies to understand the story and participate in weekly
discussion.  We also have been practicing our fluency. Our lessons helped prepare us to meet with
our kindergarten buddies. 

Our narratives are almost finished, but the wild weather did interrupt our WIFI service which prevented
Friday from being our finish-up day.  We will extend our deadline and look forward to sharing our work next
week.

In math students have been doing a great job practicing their multiplication facts.  Next week we will focus
on our 4's. Please remind students to practice as frequently as they can to help build automaticity.  We've
moved into our 2nd unit: Multidigit Multiplication and Early Division.

Students are seeing the benefit of knowing their 1 digit facts to help solve their 2 digit multiplication facts.

We had a successful wrap up to our Geology unit.  Students enjoyed participating an engineering task to
prevent a landslide.  We also complete a summative assessment that was sent home. today. Our new
unit is all about sound.  

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