Week of November 28, 2010

I am happy to say that the students came back to school ready to work after Thanksgiving break! In our math class, we continued to learn about our shapes, including details about how to differentiate based on the number of sides. We also learned about vertices and edges. We continuously work on money skills, ordering numbers, addition and subtraction, time, and word problems. We address these in our daily warm ups, drills, or SmartBoard activities. In Language Arts, the students had to write about a time in which they needed a band-aid. They either used their imaginations or actual events to tell their tales. They did a great job. The students also wrote about one special person in their lives and explained why they chose that person. The students also shared what they did over Thanksgiving break with their peers. Our featured book for this week was called, Remember, Grandma? The students really seemed to enjoy the story. The Explode the Code for this week focused on the blends -dr, -gr, and -cr.