Using Adjectives to Describe Monsters

Our math objectives for the week included giving equivalent names for numbers, exploring calculator patterns, comparing numbers using the relation symbols, and exploring number grid patterns.  Students continued to practice math skills through the use of games, technology and small group work during math stations.  We will be having our Unit 1 Math Assessment on Wednesday, September 24.  Assessment review homework will be sent home Monday and Tuesday.  Please be sure to go over the homework with your child.  If your child has difficulty with any skill please let me know so I can review it with him or her before the assessment!

During reading we continued to practice the routines and rituals of Reader's Workshop.  Objectives included using background knowledge from the text to determine if a story is real or imagined, keeping track of reading habits and responding to what they read, and writing a good reader's response that includes a belief statement, evidence, reasons and connections.  Our read alouds for the week included Miss Nelson Was Missing, The Pout-Pout Fish, and Tar Beach.

Objectives that we worked on during writing were including important events in sequential order, using illustrations to develop ideas for stories, writing letters to communicate a message, and using adjectives to make a piece of writing more interesting.  Today students practiced using adjectives to make writing more interesting by drawing a detailed picture of a monster and using adjectives and nouns to describe their monster to the class!  Please check out some of our monsters below :) .