Today we checked out books using our new classroom library system.  The wonderful thing about the new system is that it will prompt students to write a review each time they return a book to the book library.  This will increase my ability to monitor students progress and help them find interesting books that are at their level.
    We are continuing our work in non-fiction texts for a couple of weeks to come.  We have been talking about how to find the right non-fiction text, and how we can use text features when we are pre-reading non-fiction.
    Tomorrow is our test on Mental Math and Estimation.  Those rounding skills are going to be important.  We have been talking about how to use rounding to help us check our work to see if our answer is reasonable.  It is also important that students understand that 68 tens is equal to 680.  Next week we are going to start our chapter on addition with regrouping.  We play a game in this chapter called "Go for the Smallest".  If you would like to stop by and learn the game just send me an email.  This is a game that is fun even for me and would be easy to learn and play at home!  Mrs. Lane, our excellent Math Coach is going to host another parent math night this month.  It will be on October 17 from 6:00-7:00.  That would be an excellent night if you and interested in learning about how we teach addition with regrouping.