Today we read Itsy Bitsy Spider's story as part of our perseverance unit, then wrote her a letter. The letters will be sent off to Story Book Lane. She will more than likely read the letters and respond to our inquiries and well wishes.
We have completed all formal lessons for topic 20 in math. If you practice the skills from this topic with your child occasionally during the break, then I will review when we return before giving the test. We also discussed in class how the truly complete answers to the math homework journal questions include full explanations as to why you know what you've stated. If "Jose" is wrong, 'we know he's wrong because when counting back __ 10's the answer is __ not __.' Or we prove him wrong using inverse operations. Just such a question came up on the District Quaterly Exam and the more complete answers received a '4'. I gave a Chance ticket to those more complete answers in order to encourage more thoughtful responses. Please remember that these tests are given in all subsequent grades in school. If a homework question has 3 or 4 lines for a student to respond, it is likely that we are looking for more than a 3 or 4 word response.
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