The students had their spelling test this morning.  Please make sure your child is studying the words at home.  They also had the opportunity to write letters to the special person.  This is a great activity to see the gains that students have made in their writing as they have to write the same letter each week.  In math, we discussed the importance of labeling our patterns.  That is, what is the ABC rule.  Ask your child what their pattern rule is for their snake.  The grade one students made a pattern with one changing attribute and the grade two students had to have two changing attributes.  We will continue to work on our snakes on Monday. 

The students have started their writing unit on Procedural Writing.  We have completed a few procedures in small groups and as a class.  The students brainstormed with their reading buddies ideas for their first independent procedural writing task that they will begin on Monday.  Ask your child what the procedure is about.  The students have brought home a rubric for the end of this unit.  The rubric will be used  to assess one of their writing tasks.  Please make sure to initial it and have your child bring it back to school on Monday.