Sunday, September 22, 2013

Happy first day of Autumn!

     These past two weeks have been exciting and busy in the afternoon in 2nd and 3rd grade.  Second grade has started the new math book called Math Expressions.  They have been busy learning about math mountains and missing addends.  We will continue to work on different strategies to solve these math mountains.  Please work on addition and subtraction math facts up to 18 with your students.  They need to know these without using their fingers within the next month or so.
     Third grade has been reviewing some important math concepts in order to be able to begin multiplication. They took an addition and subtraction math facts test and all did quite well on this.   We will begin working in the new Math Expressions book this week.  The book begins with multiplication. Please help them study their facts when they begin coming home.
     For those of you that have an iPad at home there is a great free app that I use to study math facts with my kids at home.  It is called Timed Test Arcade.  You can set up the test for exactly what you want.  There is an incentive for the students to do the tests.  They can earn tokens to use at the arcade.  It is a great resource for addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
     In third grade Social Studies, we are learning about the geography of Wisconsin.  They should be bringing home their Wisconsin workbooks each week with an assignment that is due the next Monday.  Please help them to remember to bring their book back on Monday.  We use these in class.
     I still need to add pictures to the blog and will try to work on that this week.  Please feel free to call or email with any questions.
     Have a wonderful week!
         Mrs. Cowart

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