Weekly Times October 5, 2012

Weekly Times September 21, 2012

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Units of Inquiry
DIG IT - How the World Works
Crystal Experiment - on going
Sorting Rocks based on their properties (luster, color, etc.) into Igneous, Metamorphic or Sedimentary
Map of the Earth's plates
Volcanoes (with Ms. Casson)

Language
Spelling – the long e sound
Writing about the weekend
Spelling sentences, activities, Spelling City
Nouns and Verbs
Read alouds: Magic School Bus: Voyage to the Volcano, Magis School Bus: Inside the Earth

Maths
Place Value up to thousands
Addition of numbers that cross the tens boundary
Review of ten bonds and twenty bonds
Hundred Bonds and near hundred bonds (26 + _____ = 100) using a hundred square
Review of comparing, rounding and ordering through Mathletics
Next week - subtraction

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

Our Crystal Solution - will crystals grow?

Examining Rocks

More Examining Rocks

VOLCANOES!