Hi everyone, I am sorry I haven't updated recently, but we have been so busy! We have experienced exploring a sheep's heart, plus we went on a wonderful field trip to The Museum of Nature and Science. It was so amazing! We got to visit the Destination Health Section and experience the Lung Lab. This included learning about our respiratory system up close and personal as we dissected sheep's lungs. Please check out our face book site for pictures to be posted soon! Our test over the circulatory and respiratory system is tomorrow!

We have completed our first projects on geography and mountains, our first personal narratives, and our first reports! We are now learning to write 4 different types of topic sentences and conclusion sentences. Next week we will begin our in-class research projects on bats and spiders! We have learned to write summaries and are doing a word study during reading class. We have learned that sometimes spelling rules help us and sometimes they are confusing! As we study the rules, words and their definitions and origin we are learning why spelling English words can be challenging! In math we are done with geometry - but will continue to work on it all year. We have learned about addition of multi-digit numbers, subtraction of multi-digit numbers, and 3 ways to solve these types of problems. We have learned about mean, mode, range, and median - boy this can be confusing. So we will continue to practice. Next week we will be completing our Unit 1 reading test, Unit 2 math test and moving on! Math facts are still a focus so keep studying.

Well, that is my update for now. October promises to bring lots more learning, conferences and Harvest Hop. Look for information on these activities soon!!!!