Wednesday 9-28

Sorry about the lateness of the post.....

Today in writing we learned about speeding up and slowing down. We want to slow down the interesting parts, like just when I wound up that snowball and it flew through the air and smacked the teacher upside the head...and speed up the parts like...then we got in the car and sat there for 20 minutes and talked about this and that and then finally afer a while we got to where we were going....you get the idea.

Speed up some parts and slow down the good parts.

Everyone's writing is really coming along. I am very pleased with the progress I am seeing.

Later in the day we took a look at our reading records and moved them to be stored in our LA/SS binders. Some of us had the realization that I'M NOT READING ENOUGH. HOW WILL I EVER GET SIX NOVELS FINISHED BY NOVEMBER 30th.

So, some of us vowed to read more. That is at least 1 hour a week outside of school right now and moving up to 2 hours per week starting next week. (That is 20 minutes per day four days per week.) Please catch up over the weekends.

Also, do not skimp on the quality of your books just to fit them in. Starting Monday, we are reading the BFG for Global Read Aloud and posting responses with our friends in New Jersey on Seesaw.com (yes, it can be accessed from home! Awesome  Brilliant) We will all choose another Roald Dahl book to read alone (there are so many I can't believe you have read them all. I found 34 listed at this site https://www.roalddahl.com/global/roald-dahl-titles,  There's two more you will finish in October. The goal is two per month and a variety (not all graphic novels, but some can be.)

We all made sure we had posted our greetings on the seesaw site. We also completed day 4 of our word study packets (or we tried to.) This is our practice packing using every day words like months, days, holidays and classes.

Parent conference sign ups are here: http://signup.com/go/XoiKWa
This will arrive in an email as well.

Homework today:
Read for 30 minutes (no writing today)
Math: Page 17
SS: work on your map if it's not done and you have time
Cheers.