Welcome Back from Fall Break

What a great week!  We reviewed and practiced routines and norms.  
Reading:
We are persevering by applying many reading strategies during our reading.  Sounding out is just one reading strategy.  Students need to use a variety of reading strategies.  Most importantly, they need to make sure their reading:
~sounds right
~looks right
~makes sense
Today, we discussed picking "just right books".  An "uphill" book has 5 or more hard words.  A "just right" book has 1-4 hard words.  A "downhill" book has no hard words. 

Questions to ask your student...
~What is a just right book?
~What is a reading strategy you can try when you come to a tricky word?

In our expedition writing, "Everybody Has a Story", we are working on:
~spaces between words, capitals at the beginning and periods at the end
~making sure our writing flows
~adding details (describing words, action words, feeling words)
Questions to ask your student...
~Why do you add details to a small moment?
~What details did you add to your small moment?

We finished up our shapes math unit.  The students enjoyed and used our math vocabulary:
geometry
vertices
quadrilateral
triangle 
Questions to ask your student...
~What is a quadrilateral?
~Can you describe or explain vertices?

We are so excited for Halloween on Friday!  We hope you can attend the all school parade at 9 am with our in class party immediately following.