Thanks for the Fun!!!

A huge thank you to Myndi Paras and all other parents involved in putting on a great Halloween Party for the class yesterday. The kids had a lot of fun. I appreciate that the refreshments were mostly non sugar - a more healthy choice. The kids were really well behaved all morning and had a great afternoon with the party and the parade. Congratulate your child on their super behavior!

I have been pushing them hard the last couple of weeks trying to finish up some projects and get some final assessments done before the end of the term. They have been real troopers, working hard and not complaining, even on the day we did 7 different short tests. I am trying to finish listening again to each of them read to determine their present GRL. I am not finished scoring two of their writing assignments and we do have a few more assessments to complete. I do this so that I have a really good picture of their strengths and weaknesses to more accurately determine their grade. Also we can use this information to guide our discussion about your child and his/her needs.

This week we have started two important areas of study. In math we are studying doubling of numbers. This is a great strategy to help them learn a lot of their math facts as many of the facts can be solved by using doubles, doubles +1 or doubles -1. We will have some good fun with doubles tomorrow. We are also studying the group of fiction genres that include legends, fables, folktales, fairy tales, and tall tales. We read two folktales, "Two of Everything" (a Chinese Folktale) and "Double Trouble" (a Latin American Folktale). They are basically the same story but set in different cultures. This experience helps the kids learn that many of these types of tales and stories are related in different cultures with some differences. These two tales also introduce the strategy of doubling.

Today we also read "The Three Wolves and the Big Bad Pig," a fractured Fairy Tale which is also included in this genre group. Their next vocabulary list will come from this book. Watch for that list to be posted tomorrow, hopefully.

PLEASE REMEMBER TO SIGNUP ONLINE FOR YOUR APPOINTMENT TIME FOR PARENT TEACHER CONFERENCE WHICH WILL BE NEXT WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY.

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