Fluency Stars!

Today students took their Unit 1 Math Assessment.  I will try to have assessments graded by the end of the week.  I will send home a Sign & Return with students' scores. The last page of every math test is a fluency test.  If students solve all the problems within  a minute, they get to stand on my desk (see our Fluency Stars below).  We will continue to practice our addition and subtraction fluency in workshop, throughout the year.

In Readers' Workshop, students applied what they know about character thinking and dialogue to sort and identify each.  We then used these close reading strategies to help us infer ideas about characters and relationships.  Tomorrow we will be SRI (Scholastic Reading Inventory) testing.  SRI's help us measure student growth and differentiate instruction to ensure all students engage in high levels of learning.

We did not get to Writers' Workshop today as the math test ran into our writing time.

In Word Study, students applied everything they've learned about letters, patterns, and their relationships to spell words in their second Word Study Challenge.  I will send home Sign & Returns on Friday.

In Read Aloud, students bounced and built on each others' ideas about characters to help us grow theories about characters and plot.

In Social Studies, students continued to work on their pre-assessment.  Hopefully tomorrow we can return to our MLK Jr. close reading activity; the students have been begging to get back to this!

Homework:

• Read 20 minutes  

Reminders:

• No school Thursday, September 25.

Thank you,

Ms. Smith