Tuesday

Good Evening

I'm sorry for the spotty posts as of late.  Things are humming and time escapes me sometimes.

First of all, the report cards are in their envelopes and ready to go home tomorrow.  We had some pretty big technological glitches so thanks for your patience.  Please let me know if you would like to discuss anything further on the report cards.  We can always meet.  It may not be until the new year, but I would be happy to make an appointment with you.

These next two weeks are a bit crazy busy.  We are getting ready for the concert next week. We also have our holiday celebration on Thursday afternoon.  A note went home about that today.  Please let me know if you are unable to contribute the item/items your child volunteered to bring or if you can't contribute a book for the swap. Thank you!

Ms. Adams' last day will be Friday.  She'll be off to student teach next semester in Hillsboro.  We will for sure miss her around our room!

We have been working on publishing our writing.  Students learned the difference between revision and editing today. The process continues!  I hope to be done and celebrating these pieces by next week so we can start a new adventure in the new year with writing.

In reading, we are focusing on the skill of retelling and summarizing.  This is difficult! I read a book called Chrysanthemum today and modeled how to find the beginning, the middle and the end of the story.  We will look at how to summarize those parts tomorrow.

In math, we continue to review subtraction with regrouping... another difficult concept.  If your children come home and they are exhausted, that's because we are doing some hard work here at school! I'm pushing the test off until Thursday in math with a little more review tomorrow.

Questions?  Let me know!  Thanks!