Hello Parents, Well, we are making it through week 2!! I think we are getting a routine down, but I better not say that too quickly!
Reading- This week we read a piece from The Wayside School is Falling Down. This story has some great humor and irony in it! The kids say that Mrs. Meisenheimer read them the book in 2nd grade. I think they understand the jokes a little more now that they are older. It cracks me up every time! Our grammar was on the parts of a sentence: simple subject and predicate, fragmented sentences and complete sentences. They will have their post test in spelling on Friday. I give them a list of their words on Mondays (or pretest days) so they can take that home to study their words. If they get 100% on the pretest, they don't have to take the post test on Fridays. 😀
Math- We started our chapter on Tuesday! The first lesson is about place value and increasing their numbers by 10 or decreasing by 1/10. It was really about being able to multiply and divide mentally by 10. I did show them the pattern of gaining a 0 or losing a 0. We also pretended we were going to the bank to withdraw 1/10 of our savings. For some of the kids that didn't amount to much! Some walked out with $1! Next, we will be working on writing numbers in standard, expanded, and word form. They also have to be able to write the value of a digit in a number. For example: 2,876. The value of the 8 is 800.
Religion- Their first activity was finding Bible verses and their titles. I created it on Google Slides for them to do. That took me a few times to get it assigned correctly! Our first chapter is on creation. We will have our mass with 4th grade in 2 weeks on Sept. 16. You can join us on the link on YouTube. There won't be as many people with jobs because we don't have all the normal jobs anymore.
Picture Day is TOMORROW! 📸
No School on Monday! Labor Day! Enjoy the long weekend!
Social Studies- I know they walked to the post office on Tuesday with Mrs. Sickels. They mailed their letters to their towns in Iowa. You will probably be getting some mail in the coming weeks!
I hope everyone has a great weekend! Enjoy the long one! I will probably stick around and be here one day doing some work. 😃
God Bless,
Miss Surma
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