Daily Highlights
Monday is a school spirit day.  Wear your Jefferson clothing or black, red, and white.

In math, we took a quiz on number sense and operations and we took the pretest for fractions.

There are still a few people with anti-bullying pledges and green student information sheets to be returned.

We did several activities to practice working with a partner.  We did a read aloud with turning and talking, solving a math word problem, and trying to put cute puzzles together. 

Another activity to work on our word skills was taking the words community agreements and trying to make other words out of the letters.

Our raffle winners for the week are Dashanae and Luis.

Highlights for Thursday...
In our journals, we got to be creative and invent our own candy in honor of Roald Dahl's birthday, the author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

We took a math quiz that worked on place value and number operations.  Next, we will be reviewing fractions.

On Friday, students should wear the colors of their favorite sport's team.

Book orders were passed today.  They will be due next Friday, September 21st.  Please pay for the orders with a check.

Daily Highlights
As  a class, we began talking about the government.  The students created an anchor poster of government terms from their background knowledge.

We began to practice the different activities during our literacy block called the Daily 5.  The activities are work on writing, partner reading, read to self, word work, and guided reading. 

The students took their first MAPs test of the year.  It was their language arts test.  Most felt they did pretty good for the first test of the year.

Many students wore green to help participate in our team spirit day.  Every Wednesday will be a team spirit color day.

Students will show team spirit by wearing green.  They also begin their fall MAPs testing.  Make sure to get a good nights sleep and eat breakfast.

Our class wrote these two acrostic poems as a way of remembering the events of 9-11-01.

 

Forever

Remembrance

Emotional

Everyone coming together

Damaged

Overcome tragedy

Memorial

Airplane attacks

Moment of silence

Everyone was sad

Recover physically and emotionally

Independence

Courageous people

Arriving to help

During class today, we began to read an article about the statues on Easter Island and practice the skill of monitoring our comprehension.  At home, students can spend part of their reading time looking up answers to questions they thought of in class.  Hopefully, they will find answers and be willing to share the information with the class tomorrow.

Reminder for parents, if you still have forms, turn them into school as soon as possible.  This includes the anti-bullying pledge and the student questionnaire sheet (green sheet).

Welcome back students of room 318! I hope you had a wonderful summer vacation and that the first week of school wasn't too bad. Looking for a great second week. Congratulations to Corbin R. and Zoe K. for winning the first raffle of the year.