Monday, January 14th

This morning we wrote about what we would do if something precious to us disappeared.  Then, we turned and told our neighbor what we wrote.  The neighbor then had to report back to the class about what they had heard.  It was an interesting lesson that tested our listening and summarizing skills.  We will practice this more often.  Then, we learned about plural nouns with -s, -es, and -ies endings.  We did a word sort and practiced our spelling words as well.  We completed our DLP and learned about possessive nouns, too.  Then, for the first time, we learned a cursive letter!  I explained to the students that we are only allowed to practice letters that have been taught in class.  Please do not encourage your child to write cursive at home because bad habits form before they have even been introduced to them!  There is nothing harder to do than break a bad habit.  As we learn the letters, we will learn to write our names, but we have to be patient.  We will learn all lower and uppercase letters by the end of May.  In Social Studies, we took notes on the local government.  We also watched a Brainpop video on local and state government.  We will learn about the state government later this week.  This afternoon we used the strategy guess and check to solve problems in math.  Students have review pages for homework as we will have a test tomorrow on adding three digit numbers.  On Wednesday, we will begin subtracting three digit numbers.  At the end of the day, we went to the computer lab.