Starfish Gazette- November 16, 2018

I hope you enjoyed a little extra time with your kids this morning with the delayed opening.  I wasn't quite ready for all the snow gear to start coming to school today! Please remember to label all your children's winter gear.  If you have an extra pair of snow pants and would like to keep a pair at school, please feel free.  






Last Friday, we had a BLAST celebrating our Kevin Henkes-inspired stories! Students demonstrated their ability to write just like our mentor author while creating their own interesting, realistic problem and solution! Bravo, writers! Their amazing stories were sent home this week. I hope you enjoy reading them!


Here are some pictures from our Writer's Celebration:

Here's a sneak peak into our learning this week:

- Did a lot of math practice with traditional addition with regrouping.  We will begin subtraction next week! 

-Practiced our fluency of math facts in partnerships

- Began writing our non-fiction expert books.  Some of the topics include baseball, dogs, baking, cats, etc.

- Started using Spelling City on the chrome books to practice our spelling (passwords will be coming home soon)

- Had a special visit from Mrs. Belanger and her dog Peri.  Peri will be visiting our school each Tuesday and Friday to read and spend time with SMS kids

- Did a Thanksgiving art project

-Read a set of non-fiction books about one topic 

Happy Birthday to another Starfish friend! He turns 8 on Sunday!