Friday April 10
Good afternoon, Thank you for reading our blog. Here are some highlights of what we worked on this week: Math: We've been working on Decimal Place Value. We have learned to order decimal numbers from least to greatest and greatest to least. We also learned how to round decimal numbers. We talked about how decimals are related to measurement and money. We played a game with cards called Decimal Place Value Battle. Ask your child how to play. Literacy: We have been doing a Book Club with the book Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner. So far we have read one chapter. We have written predictions about what will happen, and each group of students has worked on their own task: Art Director, Discussion Director, Opinion Director, Dictionary Directory, Summary Director and Prediction Director. Ask your child which one they have done so far. We did a lesson about "juicy words" (adjectives) with our student teacher, Ms. Knutson. We turned boring words (such as happy, bad, nice, bi...