Monday will be the 100th day of school. We have a few activities planned to focus on the number 100. The students have really learned a lot in the past 100 days with 72 school days to go.

Your child may have mentioned to you, but we have a student teacher from UT Tyler that will be with our class most of the semester. Her name is Ms. Chelsea Jones and she is already doing a great job.

This week in class:

Guided Reading: Students have been tested for progress and levels have been adjusted. Guided reading groups will begin with more activities focused on fluency, meaning, and comprehension.

Math: Students are continuing to focus on tens and how knowing partners of ten and how tens relate to 100. Time by using an analog clock and coins will be introduced with much practice. And as always, addition and subtraction in computation and problem solving never stops.

Word Work/Writing: This past week, students learned about nouns and began identifying these nouns in their reading and writing. This week we will begin describing these nouns by using adjectives to describe them. We will be adding the describing words into our writing to add more details and make it more exciting.

Science: We have begun a unit studying Penguins. We will continue Penguins this week.

Thank you,

Mrs. Benson