Due to the holiday, many of the students will be absent tomorrow. You can find a brief summary of our day below. We will miss you, and I'm looking forward to seeing you Tuesday!

Language Arts:
Monday morning we will add the five new spelling words to our spelling dictionary:
about, almost, because, could, first

After completing our daily grammar lesson (the "Caught Ya"), we will complete a page in our cursive workbooks.

If there is time, I will introduce the new vocabulary words from Wordly Wise lesson three. The clipart can be found below, however, I imagine we will save this lesson for Tuesday.

Math:
Our first math lesson in chapter two will be about fact families. The students were introduced to fact triangles last year, which are a type of flash card. The children will receive a set of fact triangles tomorrow to cut apart, take home, and use for review of addition and subtraction facts. We will also discuss the commutative property of addition.



Reading:
The students will receive a copy of the rubric for their reading fluency project with poems that they are currently working on. The rubric will help them to understand all of the expectations including oral fluency, artwork, time management, and appropriate use of Voicethread. Later in the day, the children will be completing their artwork for their poems so that we can start recording the poems on Voicethread. (Some have chosen to use KidPix or KerPOOF as their medium. Others have chosen to draw the pictures themselves.)

Science:
The children are in the middle of creating an ocean zones art project. It requires three steps: taking notes on the three zones and six creatures, creating artwork, and turning the notes into complete sentences.
Tomorrow we will be working in small groups on this project.

In addition to the academic content of the day, we will be discussing the importance of balancing time on task with exploration of these new Web 2.0 programs. It is essential that the students understand that these programs, though incredibly fun, are meant to be used to produce an assignment. As they grow and develop this year, they will become better and better at managing their time effectively.

We will end the day by spending 25 minutes in the library for silent reading and Reading Counts tests.

Please be sure to check the homework sheet (the link is located on the lower right side of the blog) for information about at home assignments.

We will miss you tomorrow!
:)Mrs. Neal