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September 2009

Homework: Wednesday, September 23

September 23, 2009
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Finish Multiplication Worksheet (timed test next Friday) Read 30 min. and fill out a response with Predictions and Connections Remind your parents about the extra notebooks and composition books we need. If you don’t know your phone number for your study buddy, find it out and memorize it!

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Super Six Reading Strategies: Predicting and Connecting

September 22, 2009

This year we will be learning about the “Super Six” reading and thinking strategies. These strategies are ways of thinking that readers should be doing all day long!  For Tuesday night’s homework, we just briefly introduced two of the six: predicting (making predictions) and connecting (making connections).  As students read at home each night they [...]

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Homework: Tuesday, September 22

September 22, 2009

Student Council: If you are interested in running for a student council position, please ask your parents and then write a speech about why you should be our class representative.  Practice your speech in front of your family or in front of the mirror.  Remember, your job is to convince us to vote for you! [...]

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Don’t forgot to figure out the first “Who I am ” riddle

September 21, 2009

We will talk about it on Thursday, use your awesome math skills or become an internet detective and figure out the year from the clues.

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Place Value Math Videos

September 21, 2009

Here are some interesting videos that will help you learn more about place value.  If you like these videos, please leave me a comment below.  Tell me which video you like best and why!

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Homework: Monday, September 21

September 21, 2009

Please take your Reading Notebook home and decorate it with all things “reading” (pictures, book covers, drawings, story characters, authors, etc.) Read 30 minutes (We will be getting our reading logs soon.) Multiplication Worksheet Here is a video that follows up on our math conversation this afternoon. Are you able to explain the difference between [...]

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Additional Supplies Letter

September 19, 2009
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Download our Fall “Additional Supplies Needed” Letter September 14, 2009 Dear Room 18 Families, I am writing to request a few additional supplies for our students. My apologies for sending a second list out — unfortunately I was unable to add the items to the fourth grade supply list. There may be additional times throughout [...]

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Homework: Friday, September 18

September 19, 2009
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A comfortable work area in our classroom. Notice the “paper blogs” on the whiteboard. Family Message Journal: Please write a letter to your family about your week in school. Please share your letter with your family and then remind them to write back to you in your FMJ. Please read 30 minutes. Respond by writing [...]

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Read to Self Anchor Chart

September 17, 2009
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Here is the Read to Self anchor chart that the students and I brainstormed.  Together we thought of what students and teachers should doing during Read to Self time. Anchor charts “anchor” our learning and behavior and we refer back to these important documents each day, every day of the year. Download our Read to [...]

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Homework: Thursday, September 17

September 17, 2009

Reading 30 minutes. Write a letter to Mr C.: What did you read? (paragraph 1), What strategy/strategies did you use? (paragraph 2) Make a Beanie Baby Book about Read-to-Self expectations for students. Please make it beautiful! IF these are BEAUTIFUL, we will give them to some of the Youngers (1st, 2nd grade) for their classroom.

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