Monday

What an exciting day!  Mrs. Pond came in and showed us how to use the iPads today for our computer lab time.  We got to try out a couple of apps: Whirly Word is one and Mrs. Spider's Story is the other.  It was great fun!  We have 3 iPads housed in our room and it is my intention now to get them going.  Please let me know if you know of any apps that your child enjoys at home.  We could investigate and put them on the iPads here.  Any feedback is welcome.

During writing today, we learned how to use a five finger planner as a brainstorming tool.  I asked students to pick one thing that they did over the weekend.  This is called their "Weekend News".  They mapped out the details of this event and some even began writing these into a paragraph!  We will go over tomorrow how to turn our brainstormed ideas into sentences.

Some of us got to share our 5 memories bags.  I will work in more tomorrow.  I know it's hard to wait!  We will also make our buckets tomorrow.  On Friday, we read a book about how to fill buckets.  Ask your child about that.  We will work hard as a class to be bucket fillers! 

In math we are learning about standard form, expanded form and word form of numbers. Place value can be tricky. We are working with numbers in the hundreds place.  Reading and writing number words is difficult.  We are working through it though! 

Today is Constitution Day!  We watched a video that goes with the Scholastic News that they read on Friday talking about this day. We also read a book about the Constitution.  Finally, I sent a coloring book home.  This is not homework.  Your child can do this at their own leisure.

September 28 is picture day!