Week of January 30

It's hard to believe January is over! And what will the groundhog see tomorrow, Feb. 2. And where is the bad, bad, awful, winter everyone was forecasting? But, not matter the weather...it's always a GREAT time to read. Be sure and check out our school blog: libertyreads.blogspot.com. I'll set up a link on our blog shortly, but in the meantime...check it out. We want everyone to be voracious readers!!! A voracious reader is a lifelong learner. Just think of the places your voracious reader could go! This week we have been finishing up our letter writing unit. I hope we are finished by Friday so we can move into persuasive writing next week. Hmmm....I wonder if they will write their parents a letter to persuade them to buy something? Maybe a Kindle???? We are also working on inferring character traits. We look closely at what a character does and says and then supporting our thinking with evidence from the text, infer what the character is like as a person. We finished reading The Story of Ruby Bridges and her actions and words led us to believe she is a faithful and confident person. In math we are working on addition and subtraction strategies. We are also working more on understanding place value. Today the students were introduced to arrays as an introduction to upcoming lessons on multiplication. They quickly caught on to how it is repeated addition and connected their understanding about turnaround facts to realize that multiplication facts can be turned around as well. Tomorrow is the big filming day. A film crew will be in our classroom to film instruction. The focus is on the teacher although student responses will be heard as well. Thank you for sending in the permission slips. I assure you, children's identities will be protected. Here are a few pictures from this week, including the students who where "child of the day": Michael, Ali, and Emily. LOVED their reading!!!!