Good evening! I hope you all are having a wonderful week. A quick update on the learning in Room 165! We are coming to the end of all of our current units! So exciting! We just took our Unit 1 Post-Assessment for our current math unit. Be on the lookout for Unit 1 assessments/work coming home in the next week. We will be beginning Unit 2 in the next few days. This unit will introduce multiplication. Students will take a Unit 2 Pre-Assessment this week to show their understanding of the unit skills. We are very excited! 

Our Number Corner has been really exciting this month! We have been observing an interesting pattern of shapes this month. Students have learned about different kinds of quadrilaterals (parallelogram, trapezoid). Some important vocabulary this month has been: parallel, congruent, polygon. Students have also learned about right angles and lines of symmetry. Each day we look for these important attributes of each shape. We have some fantastic mathematical observations each day! We are also very excited to watch how many liters we are collecting. Each day we collect 250mL and add it to our total liter. So far we have collected 4 liters (4,000mL). Next week we will have a whole new Number Corner for November! :) 

Our readers are wrapping up their first reading unit. We have spent the last week working on predicting, retelling and tackling tricky words! We all know what it's like to be stuck on a tricky word. We have some great strategies in our toolbox that we can reach for! Our next unit will switch gears a bit and we will begin reading non-fiction texts! 

We have had a lot of fun studying Ellington. We spent a few days observing different kinds of maps that showed Ellington in different ways. We looked at a county map, a state map, Google map, zoning map and a farmland map. All of these maps represented Ellington as a town. Students learned that Ellington is in the county of Tolland. 

We are so excited to be celebrating all of the learning over the past several weeks. We are growing each day!