I know we only had school 4 days this week but we were working so hard it seemed like a regular week!
First, THANK YOU, THANK YOU to those that have sent in supplies. I do not like having to ask for more supplies, but some years you just run low on things and there is nothing I can do about it. I am buying things also for our classroom to continue to function how I would like! I am still low on copy paper if anyone has a connection! If you have any coupons or discounts let me know and I will purchase it if need be.
We are working on reading stamina in our class. This is building up our endurance, just like an athlete would for a game or run, but we do it for reading. It is an important skill to be able to read for extended periods of time. As a reward, I give the students 1 skittle after 10 minutes of reading stamina. If we continue we do 10 minute increments and they continue to earn skittles. If you have any skittles left in your Halloween or Valentine's candy, I can take them off your hands!
This week we worked on an animal adaptation writing project. They had to create their own combination of animals and tell me how they are adapted to survive. We had some really interesting animals! We also worked on shades of meaning for different words. Like sad and devastated. In math we started elapsed time and we are actually going to do another week on that. The students seem to struggle with this abstract idea, so we are going to attacked it a couple different ways! Try to work it into your conversations with your student! In community circle time we talked about friendship and started reading "Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing". In Social Studies we wrapped up Franklin Roosevelt and will be starting on Eleanor Roosevelt this week. In Science we worked on plant adaptations and created our own plant or flower with adaptation. I put the art work up in the hall it was so wonderful. We have a group of creative students!
That's all for now, I look forward to next week!
Mrs. Borg
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