Islands tomorrow

Hello,

We did a little antonym activity.  Please ask your child to give you a few examples of antonyms. 

Island making is tomorrow.  We reviewed the land forms today in a jeopardy like game.  Tomorrow is the "test."  If they only give me a couple mountains and a volcano, I'll be sorely disappointed.  Thank you for those of you who have made play dough or plan on it.  I will take some volunteers tomorrow after lunch if anyone would like to come in and help assist with the island making.  We should get started around 12:30.

My math class has a quiz tomorrow.  Subtraction and rounding will be the meat of the quiz, but I will throw in some addition and place value.  A couple questions will feature a number line where they need to estimate where certain numbers would be placed on it.  For example I may label the ends of a number line 0 and 100, and then ask them to approximate where 5, 75, and 90 would go.  A few are still struggling a little with this, but if they use their strategies and think a bit, they should do well.

Our picture book week continues.  We have read 277 books as a class.  Our goal of 750 may be tough to do, especially with other pesky homework getting in the way.  I still have faith.  Achieving difficult goals is a lot more rewarding.  Please ask your child about some of the books that they have read. 

Hoop night tonight for me.  I'll be making play dough with the rest of you after that. 

Have a great night.

Mr. Shea