Monday

Busy, busy, busy!  I hope you find the brief newsletters helpful.  I try to highlight what is happening each week for you.  I figure you can get the big picture and then come here for the details.  Hope that is working for you.  Check out the new design.  I'm trying to embed a calendar, but it's a bit clunky. I'll keep working on it so you have a reference of important events to come.

In math, we took a place value test.  I will look forward to looking at these tonight to see if we need more time on this topic.  After Morning Meeting and snack, we did our portfolios. Students wrote about the 5 items they brought in for their Me Bags as well as picking an assignment from last week.

In word work, we reviewed the last 10 words from the first grade list. In writing, we planned our "Weekend News" and will write that tomorrow. I read a book called Meanwhile...and we discussed temporal words (first, then, next, after, finally).

We read The Year of Billy Miller and then did a shared reading on the September poem from the book Chicken Soup with Rice (FUN!). We reviewed rhyming words.

Finally, in reading, we sang a rap song (I Pick).  We will video this after more practice.  It's a catchy one.  Also, we began building our stamina for Read to Self.

Homework this week is to memorize their password (student identification number) and do a math sheet with place value.  Don't forget to keep reading and recording on that reading log!  I'll collect those next week.