Mrs. Sanna's Sleuths 10th Edition
Newsletter October 9, 2015
Things To Know
- No School for Students on October 12th
- Field trip to see Shrek the Musical at Batavia Fine Arts Center on Friday, October 16th
English Language Arts (ELA)
We reviewed story elements of a fiction story. We read a story called Teacher's Pets and students completed a Story Man graphic organizer with their reading partners. Students also wrote informational stories about different pets. We learned about plural nouns and made a Witches' Brew list which included nouns and adjectives.. I conferenced with the children about how they are progressing in writing. Many children need to remember to add ending punctuation in their writing! During our Social Studies segment of our ELA time, we began studying maps. We read a book called Me on the Map, and did a craft activity along with the book.
Lucky Hat Project
I read a book by Mark Teague called Lost and Found, and I wore my "Lucky Hat". I am asking each student to create/decorate their own "Lucky Hat " at home. We will be using this activity as a launch to our classroom blog! Students will be writing about their hats on the blog and they will receive comments from their class members about their hats. Your child will have two weekends to work on their hat. Please have your child bring their hat to school on Tuesday, October 20th!
Math
We continued our measurement unit. We used gummy worms to demonstrate how to compare lengths by measuring our unstretched gummy, then our stretched gummies. Students were very tempted to eat them, but listened and threw them away when we were finished with this fun activity! We began using open/empty numberlines as a tool to help us show our work when completing number stories involving measurement.
FYI
GUS Winners/Thank Yous
- Our GUS WInners were Teddy- prize box, Caleb-lunch bunch and Max K.--GUS board
- Thanks to Garrett for being a great Star Student this week and sharing his interests and his giant Rainbow loom necklace and other cool Show and Tell items.
Mrs. Sanna's Contact Information
Email: colleen.sanna@bps101.net
Location: AGS-905 Carlisle Road, Batavia, IL, United States
Phone: 630-937-8016
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