Changes

I am going to make life a bit easier on all of us and use our blog as a HW posting site as well. After receiving feedback that BC@Home is not as manageable as we would like, I will be posting the HW assignments nightly on our blog. It will be located on the left side bar.

We were happy to welcome our student teacher, Ms. Katelyn Bonk to our class this week. She is excited to join us as well.

This was an extremely short week but packed full of fun. We had our Floating and Sinking Test on Wednesday. The results were great with an average of 90%. I am working my way through all of the lab journals and should be able to send them home on Friday. The lab groups worked well together and Mrs. Kourt and I had a fun few weeks of science with our scientists! A special thank you to our parent volunteers!

We have continued our study of Inferring during Reading Workshop. We have used comics, sentences, paragraphs, books and finally context clues to infer meaning while reading. As readers we infer constantly. Your readers are beginning to see this in their own reading. We will continue to infer through next week.

Today was the start of Feature Articles for Writing Workshop. This will be a study for several weeks as I teach the purpose, features, and structure of the writing as well as provide instruction on how to do research.

We have returned to division for our next unit of math. We are slowly easing our way back in and reviewing basic division facts before we take the plunge into long division on Monday. Like two digit multiplication, this concept just takes practice.

Our internet safety lesson this week focused on email. I hope your student shared all of the information with you!

Peaceable Bus began today as we got to know our drivers better. We have 3-4 lessons this year as we continue to build a strong community even on our busses.

As a special treat, tomorrow we will be video chatting with Mr. Reiley's 6th grade class at the Middle School. We will be partnering this year to share our work. They are mummifying a chicken and I just had to see it for myself!!!

Thank you for the paper towels and wipes that came in!! It is a big help to us!!

Stay warm!