Math: WE reviewed the math quiz from last week. These should have come home on Friday. If you haven't seen it, ask your child. Using this information, we developed a plan for the week that focuses on specific areas where we struggled on last week's quiz. Some of the students worked with subtraction (and using addition to check) and bar graphs while the rest of the class worked with our quiz data from last week. We used this data to determine the mean, median, mode, and range in addition to creating a line plot to help organize our data.

Homework:

Subtraction and Bar Graph group - complete the circled problems in the review packet. There are notes on their quizzes that should help with this if they need a reminder.

Data Analysis group - In their math journals is a data set that needs to be examined through the analytical methods we discussed in group today. These methods are noted above.

Language Arts: We had a discussion about explicit and implicit information today. We framed these ideas through a puzzle analogy:

• Explicit information are the pieces of the puzzle (right there in the text)
• Implicit is the "picture" that a reader "sees" when all the pieces come together

The analogy is a bit of a stretch but it helps them distinguish the two types of textual information. Another way of defining it is - "connecting the dots" or "using clues to solve the mystery."

We started novels in every group today (pink, green, and purple groups). As a whole, these novels will take approximately 2 school weeks to complete. You can expect a reading task every night. However, on most nights there will be an RRJ prompt to complete, too. There is time in class everyday to get started on these tasks.

Cricket in Times Square:

Read Chapters 1-2.

RRJ - How would you describe Tucker and Mario so far in the story? Think about their similarities and differences.

Junie B. Jones:

Read Chapter 1

RRJ - How would you describe Junie B. Jones so far in the story? What in the text supports your belief?

Ramona Quimby, Age 8:

Read Chapter 1

RRJ - Describe Ramona's first day of school using evidence from the text.

There is an important letter in your child's home folder! Please read this letter and contact Ms. Plesniak, School Community Health Nurse at 301-253-7051 during the school day if you have any questions.

As for the classroom implications, we are using Purell before and after lunch/recess prior to leaving/coming into the room. We could certainly use some additional sanitizer since my personal supply will run out quickly...thanks in advance for your help!