Please be watching your email for your child's ALP for the 2014-2015 school year. I have now met with almost all of the students to discuss their academic goals and their affective goals so I will be typing up the offical Advanced Learning Plan that will communicate your child's goal and the services we will be providing during this school year. I hope to have all of this paperwork typed up and emailed to you by November 7. Yesterday was my last day with 4th grade language arts/creativity students until after Christmas. We worked hard all first quarter to learn how to "notice and note" more carefully as we read. We also began working on learning Greek/Latin roots of the English language. We enjoyed each of our Friday creativity times by exploring how to generate a lot of ideas, connect ideas, and ellaborate on ideas. Lastly, we spent quality time reading and learning to lead and share appropriately with literature circle groups. When we return together for 3rd quarter, we'll be reading more challenging text and looking into different genres (poetry and nonfiction especially.) We'll continue exploring how to slow down and notice more author technique that helps us take note and increase comprehension and inferring skills for understanding. The third grade langauge arts/creavity group will begin their work with me for the 2nd quarter on October 21. Third grade math had some great hands-on fun (thanks to awesome parent helpers and an amazing third grade teaching team!) We held the first annual Measurement Olympics all over the school. Students had to estimate for each event and then perform the task using precise measurement ability. Their score was based on the difference between their measurement and their original estimation. Each teacher escorted a mixed-group of third graders to each classroom to the ten events. We did events related to capacity, weight, length, perimter, and area to further our exploration within our measurement unit for math. There are a few pictures here and more in the photo gallery section of the website. Super fun way to spend a day!
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