Monday, October 19th

Today we started our day with a Spanish morning meeting. We completed our morning message, talked about the calender, and completed our daily math routines. Our question of the day was...how do you get to your favorite restaurant. Thank you to Elias who read the question (in Spanish) out loud to us. We learned that the greatest number of friends get to their favorite restaurant by car. After morning meeting, we read our poems of the week. Some friends read the poem wind and other friends read the poem manana de octobre. They were then asked to put the poem into their poetry notebooks and respond to it by recording what mental image the poem gave them. Ask your child to share with you which poem they read and to tell you a little bit about it! After poetry, we started the daily five. Today we learned how to use a Reading List to keep track of the books that we read. Our goal is for each friend in our class to read at least 100 books this year!!! After our mini lesson, we spent time working on our daily five choices and meeting in small groups to learn our word study patterns for the week.

In the afternoon, we took advantage of the nice weather and enjoyed some outdoor recess. After recess, we completed our Number of The Day books. The red rhinos worked on coming up with partners for 21 and the green gators worked on finding partners for 7. We ended our day with math. Today the red rhinos learned a strategy to help them add numbers more efficiently. They worked on breaking one addend apart to make a ten and then adding the left overs. For example, if we wanted to add 8 + 6, we would take 2 from the six and add it to the eight (making ten). Which would give us four left over.Our new "easier" number sentence would be 10 + 4= 14. Try working on some of these problems with your child at home! The green gators, reviewed patterns and once again worked on break apart numbers for nine.