One Hundred Fifteenth Day of School

In Writing, we have looked at opinion anchor texts and started examining their structure. Yesterday we began brainstorming by making a list of places we've been which may inspire some opinion. Later, on those places will need to be labeled or rather categorized in order to facilitate an opinion statement. For example:

• Veteran's Park
• Disneyland
• Movie Theater

• Veteran's Park-park
• Disneyland-amusement park
• Movie Theater-place/activity

In this way, an opinion may easily be stated as: The movie theater is my favorite place to visit with my family; or, Disneyland is my favorite amusement park.

It has been a pleasure so far to meet with all of the parents so far for parent conferences. Do not worry if you will miss Open House next week as we will not be displaying projects like in years past due to the early scheduling of the event this year.

For Math, make sure to review with your child the skills they missed on the Math test this week as we will take the chapter test on Friday. Tests will be returned tomorrow. Some students struggled with ten more and ten less and some had difficulty with the less than and greater than symbols.