Fun with Reading, Writing and Math

Dear Parents and Kids,
Mrs. Harmon's class is really fun!

We are working hard on getting lost in our books and becoming voracious readers. We have something called reading cafe. and the daily five.  It shows us  rules about becoming a better reader. We are working on expanding vocabulary, comprehension, fluency and accuracy.  We practice reading to get better at these things. This week we talked about juicy words. Juicy words are interesting words like delicious and phenomenon. When we are reading we are looking for juicy words words. This helps us to learn different words and new things about the words. We read the book, The Baby Sister by Tomie dePaola. It is a real life story about the author who wants a baby sister. Mrs. Harmon has started reading groups.

In writing we worked on using juicy words in our writing. We have been writing personal narratives. They are books about us.  We learned that good writers think of people, places and things that matter to them and then zoom in to small moments to write about.

During math we are working on math buckets and strategy games. We are also learning about making graphs. We have taken 3rd grade and 2nd grade assessment tests.  Today we learned how to make a double bar graph!

Don't forget about the school carnival. There will be games, cakes and things for parents and kids.

Hope you have a good weekend!
Meredith and Nevan