Weekly Times

Weekly Times 

January 8-11, 2013

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Headlines

Units of Inquiry
STORY OF EARTH- Where We Are in Place and Time
Last Presentations of final project
Reflection

EARN, SPEND, SAVE, GIVE - How We Organize Ourselves
Introduction of Class Economy with Single Subject Sterling - salary paid for going to classes
Making Fruit Salad - trading to get what we need
Gathering Prior Knowledge

Language
Spelling - contractions
Grammar - Apostrophes for possession and contractions
Writing - Vacation with false facts
Guided Reading Groups - Saving the Stegosaurus or Dinosaurs Before Dark, finishing up
Read alouds: Lulu and the Brontosaurus

Peer Leader - 
Talk about vacations and feelings


Maths
Multiplication - mad multiplication practice
Money - making 2 euro game
Next week:
More addition and subtraction

ANNOUNCEMENTS/NOTICES

• Weekend Assignments:  - 
•  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 - as usual
•  Book Review - Instead of a letter in their reading journals, students are asked to fill out the book review form so that we can share about books we have been reading and make suggestions to one another