TGIF!! Sept. 20

Another week has flown by!  Thank you to everyone who stopped in last night at our Open House.  It was an incredible and memorable evening.  I felt like a superstar! :)  I was photographed several times and even interviewed!!  LOVE it!!  We have such a great group of kiddos and extremely talented, helpful, and exciting parents!  You really feed my energy and creative juices!!

LEFT at Home:

• 100% Papers
• Scholastic News Weekly Reader: Citizenship

RIGHT Back to School:

• Parent/Teacher Conference Letter (yellow paper):  Fill out the day that works best for you, write your child's name, my name, and sign the bottom half of the paper and send back to school. (Wow, I can't believe how quickly conferences are coming up!! :)

Our Day:

• Daily 5/CAFE:
• Read to Self:  After reviewing "Good Fit" books, we again are working to achieve 20 minutes of reading stamina!  Today our stamina was: 22 minutes 9 seconds
  
• Writing:  We talked about the four parts of a simple sentence (Capital letter at the beginning, Ending mark, Noun, and Verb) and we are continuing to build our writing stamina.  Today our stamina was: 6 minutes 58 seconds
  
• Expand Vocab. Strategy: Voracious Reading.  We build our amazing vocabularies by reading Good Fit books.  The more we read, the larger our vocabularies become and the more intelligent we sound!  Read, read, read!

  

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• Scholastic Weekly Reader: Citizenship  Click here to access today's edition Scholastic News: Citizenship  
  
• YPP: We took our 3rd Yearly Progress Pro Test today for mathematics.  I will send out data as soon as it becomes available to me (as well as my best interpretation).  :)
• Math: Unit 1 - Lesson 7: Strategies Using Doubles.  Today we looked at doubles equations (ex: 2 + 2 = 4, 6 + 6 = 12, etc.) and used what we know to solve equations with doubles +/- 1 and doubles +/- 2 [ex: 2 + 3 = 2 + (2 + 1) = 5 or 3 + (3 - 1) = 5, 6 + 8 = 6 + (6 + 2) = 14 or 8 + (8 - 2) =14, etc.]
• MEGA Math: Click here to play a game with doubles at Counting Critters (Stacking Bird Pairs)