We are Rolling!

Dear Families,

This year has been a beautiful start to the year. We are rolling! Here are some highlights. First, I'm seeing a genuine hunger to read developing in the classroom. In fact we read 27,171 minutes in September. That's pretty good, but we are set to smash that month's goal. We already have 3552 minutes for October. If we keep that pace, it we will get 36,704 minutes in October. But what is most encouraging is the engagement the kids are developing with their reading time!

The same has been observed in math. Your kids have been taught to add and subtract numbers up to land over the millions. Next week we will work on problem solving and times tables. I'll be contacting my volunteers to recruit some help with multiplication facts next week during math time from 1pm-2pm.

In writing, our students have built a great deal of stamina. 90% of the class can write 70 words in 7 minutes. You should challenge them to do this. Also more than half the class has taken on the challenge of writing with someone at home. To earn an E in writing they need to do 10 entries/letters to someone at home who then responds to them. Some are writing stories together at home.

In science we have done inquiries with paper airplanes and with bouncy balls.

Thanks for your home support. I'm excited for the Jog-a-thon tomorrow!

Kyle Jorgensen

Two requests:
1. Volunteers during math time next week from 1pm-2pm to help with basic multiplication
2. Order books through Scholastic and my number: K42N3 so we can earn bonus points to buy books for our class!

Line, Ray, Line Segment, Plane, Point

Smashing our RAH Goal Already!

Congrats families!

We are a smashing success for our Read At Home (RAH) program. Check out the link to the right (September RAH) to see our RAH minutes as they are updated "real time" through Google Docs (I love Google). Our starting off the year goal is to read 20 minutes a night which translates to 520 minutes as a class. At the bottom of the chart you can see the class totals in yellow, goal in green, and the bank (which shows the difference between our minutes and our goal). Our totals for the month are at the bottom right. Finally at the far right you can see how your student is progressing with respect to the daily goal which is at the top in blue.

Through the year we also make a bar graph of the minutes read (See: Monthly Bar Graph link).

As you can see, we are almost doubling our goal as a class. TWO SNAPS and TWO STOMPS for the class (ask your kids what that means:)

Kyle