We had great time on our field trip to Leddy Park Ice Arena today to see Le Patin Libre. The ice skaters were amazing with their talent and creativity. Be sure to ask your child about the show. What was his or her favorite part? Can your child tell you about the movements and the music?
This week in math the children continued to work with place value: hundreds, tens, and ones. They used their place value knowledge as they learned how to do the standard algorithm for adding multi-digit numbers. You might be wondering...what is the standard algorithm? This is the traditional way many of us learned how to add numbers in elementary school. We found that this way of adding numbers is much more efficient than calculating sums on a number line. Can your child model for you how to add three-digit numbers using this new strategy?
In Reader's and Writer's Workshop we are involved in an informational text study. This week in writing the children took their expert topics and created a table of contents for their books. Then they began to write the chapters of their books, teaching the audience about their topics. In reading, we continued to read many nonfiction books and tried to find the main idea of a chapter and the details that support the main idea. We organized our thinking as we read using a graphic organizer called boxes and bullets.
We continued with cursive handwriting this week! It has been fun to watch as the children become more comfortable writing cursive letters. Has your child shown you how to form any letters yet?
Lastly, we have had a few issues with children not turning in their reading logs at the end of the month. Your child's homework is to read and record his or her reading minutes during the month. If he or she does not turn in the reading calendar, then he or she will not be invited to lunch bunch. The actual calendar needs to be turned in within in three days of the first of the month. Thank you for supporting your child with this reading homework.
Have a great long weekend! Remember there is no school on Monday!
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