Friday, October 24

Wow we had a busy day! We have been working really hard and it is showing! Our morning meeting started with the shoe greeting where we got to pick a shoe and find its match. This is a favorite greeting of ours! After that we shared all of the fun things that we will be doing this weekend. It sounds really exciting! Next we played 4 corners. It was off to tiger time after that. We will be pre-assessing Unit 3 next week on Friday and regrouping for Tiger Time at that point. When  we came back from TT we started working on creating and proving subtraction equations! Set up a subtraction equation at home and see if your child can tell you where the total is. We have been working really hard on remembering that the first number is the total and the other two numbers are number partners. It is tricky to remember that the answer isn't the total in a subtraction equation! (ex. 10-7=3, 10 is the total and 7 and 3 are the number partners that make 10)

We took three different reading tests today as well. The first one was on the story that we have been reading this week, Curious George at School. When we take these tests, I read them aloud for the students and they are able to use their books to refer to. Then we took the vocabulary test that went over the High Frequency Words and words that have multiple meanings. Multiple Meanings is a tricky concept but we will visit it often throughout the year. Finally, we took our spelling test on the short o sound. On these tests, I will focus on the sound of the week for 1-8 and 9-10 will be review sounds. The star words will always be HF words from the current week. Please let me know if you have any questions on these items. 

For the end of the day, we worked on ghosts to decorate the hallway this week for Halloween. It is a fun project that works on patterns and creativity! They love working on it!

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