Fun Pictures

Red Sox Day!

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The kids did an amazing job playing jeopardy.  We played jeopardy to help get us ready for our science test.

Here we are playing a math game to practice regrouping.

There is another Red Sox day on October 30th!  Go Sox!

Science Test

We will have our science test on Friday.  The homework this week is to continue to study for the test!  We played a fun game of jeopardy today to help get us ready for the test!  I will post picture by the end of the week.

RED SOX!!!

The children in Mrs. Burke's class will celebrate the Red Sox going to the World Series on Tuesday!  They can either wear their favorite Red Sox shirt or red, white, and blue.

GO RED SOX!!!

October 18th

The math test was sent home this week.  I will be sending home the test after every unit.  Please sign and return them so I can keep them in my files. 
Our next math test on regrouping will be on Tuesday!  The kids are doing great!  This week will begin regouping with subtraction.
In Fundations we are learning about 1-1-1 words.  These are words that have one closed syllable, one vowel, and one consonant closing in the vowel.  The students are learning that when there is a 1-1-1 word, and you add a vowel suffix, then you must double the consonant. 
In writing this week the students learned about writing new and exciting leads in their story.  The five different leads we talked about were dialogue, action, setting, question, and sound.  Their new leads were amazing.
We met with our buddies today and worked on some Halloween word problems and then played Halloween Bingo.
We are hoping the Red Sox win this weekend so that we can have "Red Sox" day on Tuesday.  There is a whole school spirit day on Wednesday.  Don't forget your red!
The halloween party will be October 31st at 1:15.

October 11th!

We had such a fun time today with Mark!  He was amazing at jump roping!  It was hard to take pictures because the kids were moving.  Here are two pictures I managed to take.  Thank you for bringing him to our school!

 Here are the children jumping!  They had so much fun!!

 Here is Madison showing off her jumping roping skills!

 

I had to throw in this one of Max!  He isn't smiling but he is wearing all the bracelets the kids are making for him!!   He loves them and only takes them off to sleep!  It is very cute.

 

 

 

 



October 4th

This week in math we learned many different mental math strategies.  I told the students they should use the strategy that makes the most sense to them because all students learn differently.  At the end of the week, we began to learn to add to the nearest tens and hundreds.  Our math assessment will be next Wednesday.

For the month of October we will be focusing on the genre of realistic fiction.  During this genre study the students will be reading independently, in small groups, and at the end of October we will be having book clubs.  Throughout the month I will have book talks on some of my favorite realistic fiction books and we will work on different reading strategies.

In science, we learned about photosynthesis.  Ask your child: "What does the plant need to make food?"

We will begin using Study Island as homework this week.  The class went to the computer lab to take the math pre-test last Friday.  This week we will take the ELA pre-test.