Yesterday was spent listen to Mike Mattos who is an intervention expert. I have included a short video here that Mr. McGrane found it explains what he spoke with us about.
Believe it or not parents can also help intervene with their child. All the students in our classroom have been given a skill to focus on in reading for the week. The skills are things such character, sequence, vocabulary, main idea, etc. Ask your child what they are to focus on this week and discuss that skill with them. If their skill is character ask them about the character in the book they are reading at home or in the story they read at school. This can go a long way in helping your child improve.
Today we went over last week's selection test and started another story in reading. This week's story is Alexander, Who Used To Be Rich Last Sunday. This is another Alexander story by Judith Viorst that wrote the more popular Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. Here is a link to a video of that story. There are 3 parts.
The kids should all be bringing home a spelling worksheet to complete at home sometime this week. It doesn't need to be returned to school. Keep studying at home.
Today was the 11th anniversary of 9/11 so we watched a video about 9/11 and spent some time talking about what happened that day. Sometimes these things can be difficult to talk about with children, but I feel they are important to discuss as that day was so important in the history of our nation. I do my best to keep the discussion at an appropriate level for third grade students and the students do a great job of keeping their questions and comments appropriate.
In math we learned how to play Beat the Calculator and reviewed a little bit. There will be no math homework tonight.
Tomorrow afternoon I will be at another meeting and there will be a sub here for math. I think the kids will do just fine with a sub as they are all great kids.
Let's all do our part to make this a great week of learning!
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