We have started our tour of the SW and should finish it up this week and will do our test early next week or maybe even this Friday. Should be easy as there are only 4 states. As I told the kids, I am not sending home a study map. Today, we talked about factories being built on the U.S./Mexico border. If your child can tell you why America builds factories in Mexico, write factories in the planner. (We talked about how this is sad, but true.)
Our HR today was about Buffalo Bill Cody. Tomorrow we will have a discussion on it and Mr. Senitte just happens to be from Cody so he is going to come in and talk to the kids about growing up there.
We are finishing up 4 huge concepts in math this week. They are geometry, time, graphs, and calendars along with continuing long division. We will have a test on these Friday. Today, we learned about finding the Median, Range, and mode of data. If they can tell you which one occurs most often, write it in the planner.
We started our new book clubs today. The kids are excited about their new books and we had a good discussion about them already as they shared their awesome predictions. Like I said before, these kids are so much for to listen to discuss books. So much information being shared. Just so you know the strategies we with books are:
*predictions
*connections
*clarifications
*questions
*summaries
*visualizations
Skills we work on are:
*figurative language
*main idea/detail
*cause/effect
* fact/opinion
* opinion/proof
*characterization
*compare/contrast
Wow-is that a lot of learning going on or what!!!!
Pennies for Patients-our box is getting quite heavy so keep sending in the coins to help out others. SHHHH-the kids still don't know about the pizza party.
I hear Venture Theater going on as we speak. They sound awesome already and can't wait until the 20th to see it.
Remember book orders are due on Friday.
Have a great night and dress warm tomorrow as a weather change is upon us.
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Mrs. Hankins,
Thanks for posting the blog every day. I know I apprecaite it greatly. It is a great website that I can use to see what my child had going on for the day. And yes, it does give us a jumping off point to talk about things when you are asking questions. Even though sometimes he doesn't know the answer. :-) I can only hope that in his future education that he has a teacher as dedicated as you in keeping us parent's up to date. I know this is a great place to come to also when I can't remember something to verify the information. Thanks again for posting on blog nightly. :-)
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