Every day, I am amazed at the sweetness of ALL of the children in my class!  It really makes coming to work every day such a complete joy!!  Here are some of the fun things we’ve been doing in class…

Language Arts:  We are enjoying our review week!  So far this week, we’ve played a fun Jeopardy review game, started our unit test, engaged in some exciting review activities, and had a blast with our Literacy Work Stations!  In writing, we are welcoming the beautiful fall weather as we write about our favorite seasons.

• Parents, we will be finishing our unit test on Friday.  Next week, I will be sending home information about your child’s unit test score.  Please feel free to email me if you have any questions. 

Math: This week, we have been learning about 4-digit numbers.  Your children are working very hard!  One of our trickiest concepts that we’ve learned so far involves skip-counting by 100s.  This becomes pretty challenging as the numbers get into the thousands.  (Example:  1,900,   2,000,   2,100,   2,200,   etc.) To help strengthen your child’s skills of skip-counting by 100s, I encourage you to turn this into a game whenever you have a few extra minutes in the car or at home.  Please let me know if you have any questions.  Thank you for your support!!

Science: In science, we are finishing our Habitats unit.  This week, we’re taking our chapter 3 test and our unit test.  This means we are about to begin our dioramas!  Thank you so much for your generosity with the shoe boxes.  We are so excited to begin our fun project as we build land and water habitats!!

Thank you to everyone who has sent in permission forms about our photo gallery.  I will send out a notice with the password as soon as the gallery is ready.  Thanks for being such an amazing group of supportive parents!!!