Today the students received their AR folders. They are aware of their levels, point goals, and what they should be reading. I am going to send you their levels and log ins for Home Connect as soon as possible so you can track their progress at home.
Also- I completely rearranged the classroom after school. I was frusterated with the "congestion" in our room. Twenty-four desks is a lot to fit, especially with a science sink taking up space and the computers in their own peculiarly placed spot.
I will help the kids adjust in the morning. We will go through one more change whenever the kidney table makes its appearance in our room.
As I stated in the e-mail, if possible please pack lunch tomorrow instead of having your child buy. We are doing lunch in the classroom as a reward for Boosterthon class goals, so bringing a lunch will be much easier.
The footprint cars are due tomorrow for our Boosterthon door!
The Unit 1 math test is tomorrow. Your child should have completed the review by now, which is not due to me. It is only a tool for you to use to help your child practice and study. Unit 1 covers lots of different things so do not fret! Things calm down a little bit and we will begin to focus more on addition in the next unit.
We reviewed a bit for the math test by doing math centers today. The centers included using coin stamps to stamp out coin amounts, using base-10 blocks to practice place value, playing the Penny-Nickel exchange game to reinforce there are 5 pennies in a nickel, and playing the Rolling Our Way to Basic Facts game to practice basic facts by adding together values from dice.
Here is a picture of Archer playing the Penny-Nickel Exchange Game!
Daily 5 is underway and the kids are finishing up learning how to Read to Someone. We will move onto Listen to Reading next week, which I will accompany with a handwriting center and read to self. Once we complete learning our centers, I will start meeting with guided reading groups. HOPEFULLY we will have our beautiful wonderful much awaited kidney table by then so small groups will have a conducive place to meet.
Here are Catherine and Lauren practicing Read to Someone. Carter and Jeremy are working together in the background, and you can see Kyle in action too!
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