OCtober 4, 2012

I have been enjoying my conferences and getting to know your parents.  I hope we can continue to work on not talking while the teachers and students are talking.  I do have to say some students are doing wonderful and are trying to improve their effort level.  However, some are following behind.  I am excited about getting to know your child they are starting to come out of their shell and have fun.  This might be the cause for them talking way too much. 

We have been continuing to use strategies to figure and read words correctly in our CAFE time.  We are practicing how to use different strategies to come up with just the right way to read words, or figure the meaning out.  During math we worked on CGI and continued to use number sense strategies to read and write numbers.  We used base ten blocks to model the number and draw them to add up two numbers.We discussed properties of matter mass, texture, flexibility, and shape.  We will be doing an experiment using our matter words.