Weekly Times September 21, 2012

Weekly Times September 21, 2012

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Units of Inquiry
DIG IT - How the World Works
Layers of the Earth:
  - How an egg is like the Earth
  - Reading about the layers of the Earth
  - Drawing the layers of the Earth using KidPix
Dig It vocabulary matching
Rock Sort

Language
Spelling – more common sight words
Me Bag paragraphs- doing the final copy
Writing a letter in the Reading Journal to practice
Read alouds: Marvin Redpost: Why Pick on Me? by Louis Sacher

Maths
Place Value up to thousands
Adding on (counting on) by 1’s, 10’s and 100’s
Ordering numbers smallest to largest and largest to smallest
Rounding

ANNOUNCEMENTS/NOTICES

• I look forward to seeing you all at our Class Meeting, which will be Wednesday, September 26, 2012 at 4 p.m. in the theatre.  
• Weekend Assignments:  - 

1. Reading Log - Please read aloud with your child for 15 minutes - see letter in the LOG - children should have logged some reading at least 5 times this week with two being their banded books aloud to an adult
2. Reading JOURNAL - students write a letter to me using three sentence starters - please see journal for further explanation
3. Spelling - Look Cover Say Write Check to review for the spelling quiz

Observing the eggs

Beautiful drawings of our observations!


Feel free to email me anytime at courtney.beeton@ambrit-rome.com