Hello Parents, I hope you're having a great week!  Below you will see the picture of our poster after Wednesday's class meeting. They watched a couple of short videos about bullying and what a school is doing to stop it. Then we "erased" the meanness from last week's poster and answered the question, "How do you want to be remembered?"

Religion- They took their first test today. Our first chapter covered the Creation story as well as the Blessed Trinity. They had to draw a picture of one thing that could contain 3 things to represent the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Below you will see pictures of their work. I will post other pictures later.

Reading- This week's test on Friday is our 3rd test in the unit. This test will have a "cold read" story for them to read along with 10 questions. They will also have questions over the story that we read this week. In our small group time, they worked on comparing and contrasting with a Venn Diagram  about characters in the story. They also worked on vocabulary and figuring out the meaning of a word using the context clues in the sentence. This seems to be a difficult thing to do for some. They really need to slow down and pick up on the clues in the rest of the sentence and figure out what those words mean or could be giving a clue to.

Math- I am more excited today!! They begin to multiply! This first part should be review for them. They have to multiply a three digit number by a single digit. We will also be working on some estimating. They just need to remember to estimate BEFORE they work it out. We will go over that as well.

On Wednesday, September 10, we celebrated 2 birthdays! We celebrated Sarah's 10th and we also celebrated TJ Frey's 12th birthday. I brought in some "sticky" treats for him! We will celebrate Nate before we leave for Christmas. It was nice to just take time to remember those boys, not that we will ever forget.

Have a great weekend! I am heading home for the weekend to participate in the Alzheimer's Walk in Sioux Falls, SD with my niece and sister. We are TEAM SURMA...for both of my parents having been diagnosed with this disease. Stay warm! I can't believe I am saying that! God Bless, Miss Surma