Questions from the Week of September 9-13, 2013

Questions to ask your child from the week of September 9-September 13, 2013:

In Reading:

-        What can you do when you come to a word that you do not know in your reading?

-        What was the strategy people used when trying to figure out the word ‘disgarded’ from the police scientists passage?

-        What did you think of your MAP test?

-        What book might you choose for your first Book Talk?

In Writing:

-        How is the final draft of your personal narrative coming along?

-        What have you done to your first draft to improve your writing?

In Tech Integration:

-        How do you access googledocs?

-        What have you written/practiced doing with googledocs?

In Math:

                  -What different addition properties did you learn about? (Commutative (Order) Property of

                  Addition, Associative (Grouping) Property of Addition, Identity (Zero) Property of    

                  Addition)

                  -How might addition help you to subtract?

                  -Do you think you may need to practice your addition and subtraction math facts at home? 

                  Why or why not?

                  -How can you split numbers apart to complete mental math addition problems?

In Science:

                  -How have your seeds changed since you first watered them?

                  -How have you been doing with recording your seed observations in your science 

                   notebook?