All About Sea Turtles

This week our essential question in reading was "What are features of different animal habitats?".  We read about the coral reef and prairie dogs.  We also read a story about sea turtles and how they  face many dangers, especially from humans.  We used this information and read several other books about sea turtles.  The students took notes from the books we read.  They will take this information and turn it into a report on sea turtles.  Look for these reports when you come for your conference.

We continued to practice skip counting and counting within 1000 this week.  We practice each morning by playing an around the world game where we count by 5's, 10's and 100's.  For several of the students, counting by 5's seems to be the most difficult.  To help your child, you could practice counting by 5's at home starting at various numbers like 250 or 455.

For two days this week, we had our CAP program.  The topic of this program was bullying and how to stop it from happening to you and how to help others that are getting bullied.  The presenters acted out scenarios that would happen at school and gave the students strategies to stop it.  They also learned a fun song to sing.  The lyrics are here:

Don't forget...conferences start next week which means we are on a half-day schedule both Thursday and Friday.  I look forward to speaking to you in person.

Have a great weekend.