.In Math today, we finished unit 5 with a little practice and an assessment. You will be hearing from me if your child needs additional support, or received a perfect score. As always, if you want to see your child's test results, please ask me, and I can send home their assessment folder, however, it must be returned the next day. Tomorrow we will be doing our mid-year assessment to see how much knowledge they have retained.
In Language Arts today, we reviewed our "bossy r" r words by "driving cars" through the bossy R parking lot, parking them in the spot that had the r controlled vowel combination on the card they read. (pictures below). After getting our brains 'recharged' through play, we sat down and learned about soft 'g'. We now know 'Gentleman G' and 'Cinderella C'. We learned that when e, i, or y, comes after the letter 'g' that it makes the /j/ sound. We also sang a soft c, and soft g, song to help us remember. During our Unit of Inquiry time, our second group of story constructors began to build their LEGO setting/vehicle, and the first group reviewed adjectives and what the beginning of a story should have. I have not seen our student's so excited to write before. The LEGO really is a great tool to spark their imagination. You can see some of our writing here
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