Weekly Times September 28, 2012

Weekly Times September 21, 2012

Headlines

Units of Inquiry
DIG IT - How the World Works
How is a cookie like a rock (and a mineral)?
Dig It vocabulary matching
Typing Minerals based on their properties (luster, color, etc.)
Reading about minerals
Earth's Plates (with Ms. Casson)

Language
Spelling – the long a sound
Sharing our Me Bags
Spelling sentences
Reading Assessment
Special Event: Australian Girls Choir Concert
Read alouds: Magic School Bus: Voyage to the Volcano

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
Greater than, less than, equal to
Addition of numbers that cross the tens boundary

Examining our "rocks"

We had lunch in the classroom when the Australian Girls Choir  came.

ANNOUNCEMENTS/NOTICES 

• 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
4.  Jar for making crystals