It was great to talk to everyone this week!  Thank you for coming in to talk to me about your child!  Please feel free to email me anytime if you have any questions.

This week in reading we looked at supporting out ideas about characters with evidence from the text.  We practiced, “I take the position that… the reason is… my evidence is…”  We also looked at how characters are complicated. They are one way around one person, and another around other people.  We discussed why that would be true.  Everything we do is in the attempt to look deeper into the text for meaning.

In writing this week we worked on revising our realistic fiction stories.  We took a look at what makes a good lead and a good ending. We also revised our dialogue using “tags.”  Next week we will make final edits and rewrites.

In math this week we have learned five different ways to multiply 1 digit by 2, 3, and 4 digit numbers.  We started with the concrete and moved to the abstract.  We used the Distributive property of multiplication to begin multiplying the different place values and moved to finding partial products and then the “old school” algorithm today.

Important Dates

Tuesday, October 31 – Halloween parade (9:00 AM) and party (9:30 AM)

Wednesday – Friday, November 22-24 – Thanksgiving Break – no school