Reading
    
      In reading this week we have been continuing our read aloud of Ida B. and we have also been reading articles in a new magazine from Scholastic called “Storyworks.” We also have been signing up for book talks after we read a book and continuing to write in our reader’s response journal.
    


Math, Number Corner and Science
     
       This week in math we have been building arrays with 1 inch square tiles and drawing them in our math journal. We have also been talking about different terms that we use for arrays like, dimensions, area, and factors. One other thing is that all of us kids have learned the new saying “ commutative property of multiplication”.  Another thing I would like to tell you is that this week we have started “Dynamath.” “Dynamath” is a Scholastic magazine that has articles that have math problems on every page to go with them. For example , this week, we all split up into groups and  read an article about koalas and the article made us write number sentences to show our work. We had to read the story the article gave us, then, we had to figure out if the article wanted us to solve multiplication or division. After that we had to write the number sentence (number sentences) to go with the problem the story was giving you.
    
            In Number Corner this week we have not done much because we got a new  calendar for October and it has not  given us many clues about what to predict, but as the month goes on we will start to make predictions about what we think will happen next or what we think the pattern is.
              
            In science this week, we have been studying the human body. We have been focusing on the digestive system. We have learned about the esophagus, the large intestine (which is really a long tube inside your body that that is 20-25 feet long inside your body), the small intestine, the liver and the pancreas. We have also learned that tissue makes cells, cells makes organs, organs makes systems and systems make THE HUMAN MACHINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Other Important News and Events

         Last week on Thursday we started NECAPS. We have been doing the reading sessions first and we will soon be moving into the math sessions. Families have also been welcome to send in treats for the students to keep us awake (because we do the tests in the morning) to help us do our best work.

        Also on Friday Mrs. Crowther gave us a catalog of non-fiction books from Scholastic. If you are going to buy books from there the orders are due 10/15/12.

By: Maddy Krupp and Greta Powers