Tuesday, September 17th

Another productive day!
We began studying addition with regrouping.  While many students know about "carrying the one," it is important that they know what that means.  We worked to explore adding with expanded form.  Students utilized manipulatives to solve math equations without writing.  This helped them to establish that "carrying the one" does not mean only one, but means groups of 10, 100, 1,000, and so on.  Students were given math practice homework to complete tonight and they should use the expanded form strategy to add the numbers.  An example is listed below.

We continued discussing traits of personal narratives and began locating important details in a text or movie.  Students watched a short clip from the movie Up and used it to describe the characters, setting, problem, solution, and events from the clip.

Field Trip:  I have only received about half of the permission slips for our field trip next week.  Please sign and return these tomorrow.

Chaperones:  Thank you to those who have volunteered to chaperone next week for our field trip to Woodland Gardens.  I am still in need of one or two more volunteers.  Please e-mail me if you are available. csanders@csdecatur.net

Reading Contracts:  Students received their Term 2 Reading contracts.  As discussed during curriculum night, students will be given class time to complete their contracts.  They will leave their contracts at school.  They are due October 23rd.  As we begin to approach the end of the term, I will be checking to see how far along students are with their contracts.  It is at this time that they will be sent home to be completed as homework.

Homework: Read for 30 minutes, spelling, Math practice - expanded form.

See you in the morning!!