Good Monday! I hope everyone had a fantastic St. Patrick's Day weekend in Belle Plaine! I am excited to share the actual holiday with some of you tomorrow at parent-teacher conferences. We have been working really hard on 2-digit addition over the last week and today we used 2-digit addition with story problems. Everyone is working very hard on this concept. We will take our test on this and on using pennies, nickels and dimes on Wednesday.
We are so lucky to have our therapy dogs that come in once a week. They made a special trip to our classroom today since they will be busy on Thursday.
We even had a guest dog, Ricky. He is a Chinese Crested. They ladies have mentioned that they have seen huge gains in the confidence of all of the readers in this classroom! Yay for working hard.
In reading we started working on compound words today. We have been talking a lot about syllables lately in hopes of getting everyone ready for these compound words. At home you can work on breaking words apart into their syllable by clapping them out. I would also suggest writing the word (or having your child write the word) and putting a slash between the syllables (ie. cup/cake). This will help him/her visualize the two words that make up the compound word.
