October 16

Persistence

This week we will continue our focus on growth mindset.  We will be focusing on Persistence this week. We will read Elephants Cannot Dance and discuss how we can use persistence in our classroom.

Math
This week in our place value unit we will focus on expanded notation and comparing numbers.  We will learn to play the base ten exchange game and solve place value riddles.

Reading and Writing
We will wrap up our first writing unit this week with a celebration of the small moment stories we wrote.  In both reading and writing we will launch our next units, Becoming Experts and Non-fiction writing.