Time for Learning!

Mme. Forman has started teaching the students about telling time in Math.  You can practice at home  - ask your child to help you tell the time using an analog clock.  You can also help build time-telling skills by practicing counting by fives with your child.

Today the students were given individual user names and passwords for the computers at school.  We discussed the responsibility and importance of keeping our passwords private as we practiced logging into the computer and accessing the Tumble Books website.  We will continue to discuss and practice responsible digital citizenship skills and practices throughout the school year.

This week we continued our discussion about Respect.  Each student has a booklet that they are personalizing as we examine different ways to demonstrate respect as we honor our class rules:

1.  We will be respectful of ourselves.

2.  We will be respectful of others.

3.  We will be respectful of our school and community.

I have been reading "George's Marvelous Medicine" by Roald Dahl to the children over the past few weeks.  This action-packed story with it's zany storyline has become a class favorite.  Ask your child to tell you a bit about what has happened in the book so far.  We have shared many laughs thanks to George and his crabby Grandma.

As we continue to lay the foundation of the Daily 5 framework (read to self, read to others, listen to reading, word work, and work on writing) in English Language Arts, students also continue to practice choosing "Good Fit" books for their personal book boxes, and today we chatted about three ways to read a book.  They are:

1. Read the pictures.

2. Read the words.

3. Retell the story to someone else.

Please continue to check the sidebar for important dates and wonderful websites, as they are changed on an ongoing basis.