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Friday, September 20, 2013

End-of-Week Update, 9/20

Leo just kept SINGING during chorus this week!
He's our FIRST Rm. 20 Celebrity Singer!  We're so proud!


What we’ve been up to:

This week has been as fun as jumping on a trampoline!  We’ve been as busy as a woodpecker pecking the bark of a tree trunk.  As you tell, we have been talking about similes for our writing.  We did tons of writing – we got our first drafts back with comments from Mrs. Adams, we brainstormed stories with "tension" for our new drafts, we made timelines for our new drafts and added planning boxes, and then we drafted for 30 whole minutes.  That’s half an hour!  Mrs. Adams and Mrs. K. were impressed.  In math this week, we completed our place value test.  We approached the test with confidence and courage.  We spent our week preparing for the test.  (Notice all those Wordly Wise words?!)  We did some preparation with Miss Farrell’s class and it was spectacular because we got to work with new people and make new friends.  Leo stepped up at our second chorus rehearsal and was selected as celebrity singer in 4th grade chorus!  We were so ecstatic and proud!  We had a story teller come in named Len Cabral.  He told us a lot of fun and interesting stories.  Check out the post below for his website and some videos.  We’re up to 45 words that we’ve learned so far in Wordly Wise!  By the end of next week it will be 60!  We worked with our engineering teams and started to develop our first project – puff mobiles!  They’re coming together very fast and they’re looking very good.  It was Corrin’s and Cullen’s birthdays this week – happy birthday x 2!  We’ve done so much hard work this week – can’t wait until next week!
 
Reminders from Mrs. Adams / What's coming up:
  • We are starting multiplication next week!  The beginning of our unit will focus on basic facts, so you can start practicing these at home!  Check the math links to the right for some websites.  Daily fact practice will begin to be a nightly homework assignment.  Let's learn those multiplication facts through 12x12!
  • Remember that reading for 15 minutes and completing the nightly bookmark log is homework!  Many students have had homework misses this week for not completing the bookmark.  It's very quick and if it's used as a bookmark, they're more likely to remember it!
Have a wonderful weekend, Team 20!
 

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