One Hundred-Fourth Day

Today we worked again with inflections. We continued with our reading of Matthew and Tilly using 'clarification' and 'making connections' as comprehension strategies. We then applied the comprehension skill of stating 'main ideas and details'. We learned that sometimes friends don't always get along and sometimes need to spend some time apart in order to better appreciate the friendship. We took dictation today with long /oo/ and long-u spellings with two syllable words.

In math we worked again with fact families. With 3 points of the score being bonus points from the performance assessment, a score of 17 was passing on Topic 15 test. Of the 23 students taking the test, 16 students passed with a score of 17 or better. One student scored 27 and 3 students scored 24, 3 a 23, and 4 a 22. On the social studies exam, again 16 students passed with a 3 or a 4.

One Hundred-Third Day

Today we blended and reviewed compound words. We used the comprehension strategies of "making connections" and "clarifying" for beginning our first reading of the friendship story Matthew and Tilly. We wrote about a time when we argued with a friend of ours and told how the problem was solved.

Topic 15 Test was handed back today. Results will be posted along with the social studies test tomorrow. Today we began Topic 16 which revisits the related facts ideas.