Practice-up!

Today we're working through the class, getting everyone up and running with the logins and passwords.  That means that students will soon be receiving emails from me with links and info related to work we're doing in the classroom.  Sometimes I will send parents a copy, but certainly not each time.  They are also welcome to send me emails regarding questions they have about homework or projects that we're working on.  There are a couple of technological projects brewing for them here at school and while I don't yet have all the information for them (or you!) and we need to start flexing our techie muscles to get ready to hit the ground running!  These projects are very exciting for everyone involved (even parents!) and I can hardly wait to let everyone in on the secret...but all in good time :)

We're currently working on place value and big numbers in Math and next week we will start thinking about a project involving searching around in the students' world for big numbers.  They may need a spark or two of creativity from home to have an idea of where to look for numbers in the thousands and ten thousands.  We'll start talking more about this early next week so keep tuned.

I'm going to start putting up some links that students can use to help practice these numbers in various ways as well as practicing their basic number facts so when we get into addition/subtraction (and later multiplication and division) these facts are right at their fingertips.  Check them out here or go to the link for the page.

Magazine sales information is coming home today so watch for an envelope and lots of stories about prizes to be won.  Speaking of prizes, one of our own class won the game during the assembly.  Ask your child about "Minute-to-Win-it"!