We’ve Got Spirit, Yes We Do!
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We will wrap up September this week. My how it flew!! We will begin new reading and spelling skills today. We will focus on the concepts of nonfiction reading material, facts/opinions, & connecting text to our prior knowledge. Math this week will include: daily flash card practice with “plus 3 & +4 ” flash cards, counting nickels & dimes, leveled clock/time practice, & finishing up writing by 2’s to 50/100. Our Painted Lady caterpillars transformed into beautiful chrysalises last week. The students began keeping observation journals over their progress. We are currently waiting for them to emerge, transformed with wings. We will go on a field trip to NSU on Wednesday to watch the play “A Bagful of Fables.” It should be a great trip for us! Things are going wonderfully in the Multiage so far this year! I am so fortunate to have such a wonderful group of sweet, driven, & loving students!!!
Mon: 1. Speller’s Choice Activity 2. Read both books in
This week we will begin our reading series & introduce spelling concepts. We will continue memorizing our high frequency words & integrate our “Chunky Monkey” (looking for chunks in unknown words) reading strategy. During math this week, we will have daily flash card practice by adding in “doubles plus 1” flash cards, more dice addition skills, count nickels & dimes together, continue leveled clock/time practice (hour, half hour, time to the 5 minutes), write by 2’s to 50/100, & continue timed “Multiage Math Masters.” We will discuss our country’s Constitution on Wednesday while continuing our science study over butterflies throughout the week. We will finish on Friday with a classroom cooking activity. I hope you have a wonderful week!
Mon: 1. Speller’s Choice ActivityElla volunteered to be first in using the "Flip video" camera. She decided to shoot a little bit of our Grandparent's Day art project that was going on in our classroom today. She turned the camera on & this is what she came up with. I thought she did a wonderful job of speaking & telling what was going on in the activity. Afterwards, Ella passed the camera to Arissa. In her video, Arissa takes the viewer on a tour of some of the painted butterflies. She really enjoyed using the camera. Look for more "Student Posts" in the near future! Putting video cameras in students hands (in our district) is the "brain child" of Mr. Terry Garrett. I commend him on the supurb idea!!!
This week during literacy we will begin reading from our basil readers, continue labeling nouns, “visualizing” while we read, discuss non-fiction, & introduce the reading strategy “Chunky Monkey” (looking for chunks in unknown words). During math this week, we will have daily flash card practice by adding in +9 flash cards, dice skills, count nickels & dimes, continue counting by 5’s around the clock, write by 2’s to 50/100, & continue timed “Multiage Math Masters.” We will take our Math Masters assessments on Friday. We will label the parts of a butterfly & use our computer microscope to look at a Monarch’s wings. We will finish up the week with a grandparent’s celebration on Friday at 1:15 in the gym. Please RSVP if your child will have a grandparent attending.
Mon: Math Flash Cards & Math Wraps Memorization Practice
Daily during our Rise & Shine Morning Meeting we practice skip counting & writing on wipe off boards. We have learned to write by 5's & 10's to 100. We are currently working on 2's to 100. Future counting/writing will include: 3's to 30, 4's to 40, 7's to 70, 25's to 200, 100's to 1000. 
We wanted to thank all of our grandparents who took time out of their busy schedules to visit our classroom. We were SO thrilled! We also wanted to send out our thoughts to Kyle & Cody’s grandparents who were not feeling well. We had a record 31 grandparents visit our classroom!
Teacher/Student Dice Hands On Math Activities Book
