New Year

Happy New Year All!! It is so good to be back! I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday and enjoyed our surprise snow days! I was so thankful that Peggy Benton was able to sub the week I was out. The kids did not skip a beat.

Just a little bit about what is going on in class:

Reading-We Finished Island of the Blue Dolphins and we are back into our big Reading book. This week we are reading a biography called Marven of the Great North Woods by Kathryn Lasky. We will begin The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe soon! Tomorrow, I will be explaining to the kids how to do a book report for a biography and a non-fiction book. They will need to do two reports in each genre and approve the books with me if they are not on our list. I will also give them the sheets that go along with each genre, they are different than the regular book report sheets. There are extras on our website if needed. We have also started a global read aloud book called Pax by Sara Pennypacker if you would like to read along with us. Our partner classroom that we are reading the book with, is in another state. We will find out next Tuesday were they are when we do a Mystery Skype with them! They are also our pen pals so we are excited to get to know them better. Make sure your child keeps you posted on all of the things we will be doing with our global read aloud partners.

English-Our test on verbs will be this Thursday. We will have a class tournament on Wednesday to practice what we have learned before our test on Thursday. Adjectives are next!

Math-We have taken individual timed quizzes on each multiplication table. This is the last week that I will announce a timed test on ALL tables, I told the kids I will give one at any time, and speed as well as accuracy will count like it always has, however, accuracy will count even more. ;) The numbers have already gotten bigger in multiplication and will begin to get bigger in division.

Social Studies-Our next Social Studies weekly will focus on early explorers in Alabama!

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