Posts: Weekly What’s Up: November 12-16, 2018

11/14/2018 4:50 PM by Amanda.Davis

I hope
everyone was able to enjoy some family time over the long weekend.

 

It certainly
seems like November is going to be a month of wild weather.  Please make sure your child is coming to
school dressed for the weather.  I also
recommend sending in a change of clothes that your child can keep in the
classroom.

 

We are in
the home stretch of our kitchen construction. 
The theme of the S.T.A.R. student assembly for November is teamwork and
Mrs. Burnett has invited our class to talk about how we used teamwork to build
our kitchen!

 

We are
looking for take-out menus and grocery flyers that we can incorporate into our
kitchen center once we have it built.  If
you have either around the house that you would be willing to send in the class
would appreciate it.

 

Literacy:   Please remember to record the title of the book
that your child reads each night. Your child should be bringing home a book to
read each night.

 

Our
No Excuses words for this week are: about,
by, did, there and went.

 

The
Halloween books have been put away and the class is eagerly waiting for the
Christmas books and our silly sentence page to appear.  We are learning about nouns, verbs and
adjectives and have been searching for them in our read alouds. 

 

Math:
 This week our
numbers will be 48-51.  You can ask your
child to show you a representation that we came up with in class or you can
have them create their own representation. 
You can also practice skip counting to that number. 

 

We are continuing to work on 2D shapes and looking for
10 partners every chance we get.  We are
also practicing place value to 50 and adding and subtracting with zero.

 

I have introduced the class to Which One Doesn’t Belong challenges.  I present them with a group of four pictures
and ask them to tell me which picture doesn’t belong and why they chose that
picture.  The trick is that there is no
one right answer for these challenges. 
It helps students learn how to justify their answers and also exposes
them to the idea that other people can think differently than they do.  Some students are finding it challenging to
get used to the fact that there can be more than one right answer and it has led
to some interesting discussions.  You can
Google ‘Which One Doesn’t Belong’ to see some examples.

 

Dates to Remember

 

Monday,
November 12:

 

Tuesday,
November 13: Tots n
Taters

 

Wednesday,
November 14: Library
Books due

 

Thursday,
November 15: Great
Canadian Bagel, clothing orders due

 

Friday,
November 16: Tots n
Taters, LHHS groups

 

Have
a great week!


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