Saturday, September 25, 2010

September 20-September 24

Welcome FALL!

These are this week's highlights in the world of GTD services at Irving School.

2nd Grade Math
We finished up our activities involving elapsed time and some of us began to work on money landmarks and giving change. Groups may be changing as Unit 2 pre-tests were givend this week. Next week students will be taking the CogAT test, please make sure they are rested and eat a good breakfast.

2nd Grade Reading
We began to read the book "26 Fairmount Ave." and began to write our own autobiographies to share stories.

3rd Grade Math
Also finished up elapsed time work. Will be moving into computation problems and algebraic thinking in solving equations (fact families, missing addends/subtrahends, etc.).

4th Grade Math
This week we finished up work in Geometry and began to go over the very difficult homework packet. Next week there will not be class on Monday due to a field trip-no homework packet.

5th Grade Math
Finished up Unit 1-Data collection, started data collection projects, and beginning Unit 2 (Operations with decimals).