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18/03/10 08:31 |
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Carol’s Desk
During Reading Workshop we continue to work on organizing thoughts for writing and putting them into a beginning, middle, and end. We have begun to focus on characters, plot, and setting. We will be spending a few weeks discussing the organization process and techniques to writing. We are on the tail end of finishing up our wolf webquests with Jamies class and hope to have the final cumulative project completed shortly. In math we are beginning a unit on multiplication. We are looking at this as the concept of repeated addition and will be looking at groups and skip counting to help build this underlying concept. For science we will be doing a weather webquest. Students will learn more about this in the next few days.
Upcoming Events & Other News
Education Commissioner Larry LeDoux visited with us this week. We were able to talk to him our HB 14 (naming the AK Malamute as official state dog) and learn more about his job. We greatly appreciated that he took the time to stop by.
Spring pictures will go home today. Please return photos that you are not purchasing.
Student-led conferences are next week. Sign ups are located on the board by the stairs.
Testing is around the corner. Third graders will be testing in my room with me while second graders will meet with Kyla down in Judy's room. Please be sure that students arrive on time with a good breakfast in their tummy.
Intensive catalogs are being emailed and the registration form will go home today. Please make sure that your child has 3 separate choices. Registration choices are due by Monday. Students who do not return a form or do not have 3 separate choices, will not be registered.
We would also like to remind you that we are always open to have parents come in and volunteer to share a special talent, or read a book to the kids! The children love this and it is a great opportunity for you to see what is happening around the classroom!
During Reading Workshop we continue to work on organizing thoughts for writing and putting them into a beginning, middle, and end. We have begun to focus on characters, plot, and setting. We will be spending a few weeks discussing the organization process and techniques to writing. We are on the tail end of finishing up our wolf webquests with Jamies class and hope to have the final cumulative project completed shortly. In math we are beginning a unit on multiplication. We are looking at this as the concept of repeated addition and will be looking at groups and skip counting to help build this underlying concept. For science we will be doing a weather webquest. Students will learn more about this in the next few days.
Upcoming Events & Other News
Education Commissioner Larry LeDoux visited with us this week. We were able to talk to him our HB 14 (naming the AK Malamute as official state dog) and learn more about his job. We greatly appreciated that he took the time to stop by.
Spring pictures will go home today. Please return photos that you are not purchasing.
Student-led conferences are next week. Sign ups are located on the board by the stairs.
Testing is around the corner. Third graders will be testing in my room with me while second graders will meet with Kyla down in Judy's room. Please be sure that students arrive on time with a good breakfast in their tummy.
Intensive catalogs are being emailed and the registration form will go home today. Please make sure that your child has 3 separate choices. Registration choices are due by Monday. Students who do not return a form or do not have 3 separate choices, will not be registered.
We would also like to remind you that we are always open to have parents come in and volunteer to share a special talent, or read a book to the kids! The children love this and it is a great opportunity for you to see what is happening around the classroom!