Happy Holidays and Questions for the Week of December 16-20, 2014

I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday break!  Enjoy the time off with your family and friends!  I look forward to seeing everyone back in 2014!  Please remember that we have a late start (10:00 AM) on Monday, January 13, 2014.  Safe and happy travels to all!

Questions to ask your child from the week of December 16-20, 2013:

In Reading:

-        What books do you want to read on the holiday break?

-        What can you find out about a character by what they do, say, or think?  What happened in the short story Stray?

-        What is happening in Earthquake Terror? (Read Aloud book)

In Writing:

-        Did you persuade other students to “buy” your invention from the Invention Convention?

-        What are you realistic fiction story ideas?

In Math:

-               How can you think of division as sharing?

-               How can you think of division as repeated subtraction?

-               What multiplication facts are you having difficulty remembering quickly?

In Social Studies:

-               How did you like the Invention Convention?

-               What did you learn from building your invention?  How did you get the idea?

-               What other inventions did you see in the other classes?

-               What might you do differently the next time you created an invention?