Week 7 (Oct 11-18)
This week in literacy, we finished up a couple of writing assignments. We wrote about what we are thankful for and why. Then we read another story called 'Too Many Pumpkins' and retold the story, pulling out the beginning, the middle and the ending. In word work, we continued to review diagraphs, such as 'ng' and then looked at 'magic e' words that change the vowels in words into long vowel sounds. In math this week, we continued to work on skip counting forwards and backwards. We also looked at comparing numbers on a number line. The grade 2's used their skip counting skills, by counting collections by 2's and then by 10's. The grade 3's continued to use their hundreds chart to skip count by 3's and 4's to prepare them for multiplication later in the year. In Science, we continued looking at solids, liquids and gases for the grade 3's and the grade 2's and worked on identifying the different materials that are used to make