Gratitude Award

Congrats to our Gratitude Winners, Stasia and Damian! 

Jousting Fun!

We had fun watching Mrs. Youngblood and Ms. Conley jousting because we met our Color Run Fundraiser goal!

Related Facts

While you are studying multiplication facts, don't forget to study the corresponding division fact, too! 

How are you studying your multiplication and division facts?

Election Day Fun

We had fun voting and stuffing our own ballot box!

Questions to discuss over fiction text

Below are some higher level questions that you can use for discussion with your child's self-selected fiction book. 

Sample Guiding Questions for Process Standards in Fiction Text

• What do you look for when you read a fiction text? (Set a Purpose for Reading)
• What important things are you thinking about as you read a fiction text? (Set a Purpose for Reading)
• What can you tell about the character from what he thinks or how he behaves? (Inferring)
• How do you feel about the character? Why do you feel that way? (Inferring)
• How do you imagine the setting of this story? (Visualizing)
• What is the big message of this story? (Inferring)
• How does this story make you think of your own life? (Access and Use Prior Knowledge)
• Do the characters in your book make you think of someone else in your life? How? (Access and Use Prior Knowledge)
• How does this story compare to ___________________? (Access and Use Prior Knowledge)
• What was the most important thing that happened in the story? (Summarize to Determine Importance)
• What action was being taken by the main character(s) of the story? (Summarize to Determine Importance)
• What influence did ________ have on _________? (Summarize to Determine Importance)
• Why do you think the author included _________? (Infer and Summarize to Determine Importance)
• The big idea of this story was _______ because __________. (Infer and Summarize to Determine Importance)
• How does the story's theme help support your summary? (Summarize to Determine Importance)
• How could you summarize this story? (Summarize to Determine Importance)
• When I put all of my thinking together, I learned________. (Synthesize)
• How did your thinking about the character change as your followed through their journey? (Synthesize)
• What did you learn from the events in this story? (Synthesize) 

Bar Models

Below is a picture of another way we are representing multiplication and division...through what we call a bar model or strip diagram. 

Fun with the Morris Brothers!

We kicked off Red Ribbon Week with a fun assembly about staying drug free. The Morris Brothers were lots of fun, and several of our classmates got to go on stage!