This week, we finished chapter 3 of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. The kids took a test on the first 3 chapters of the novel and did wonderfully!  We also have begun Reading Flooding, so your child will be seeing a few different teachers for our afternoon reading instruction.  

We enjoyed celebrating the completion of our first official writing assignment!  We had a Publishing Party and several of the kids got to read aloud their Class Pet essays,  We will begin a new writing assignment next week.

Topic 2 began this week in math; with a focus on using models and strategies in adding and subtracting with decimals.  The students are learning how to use place value blocks, mental math and other problem solving strategies to add and subtract with decimals.

We have completed our social studies unit on US regions.  The students did an incredible job creating and presenting their carefully designed posters on their particular US region.  Be sure to check out the Heritage Elementary Instagram/Facebook page to see a picture from our presentations!

We will begin science by asking ourselves, "What does a scientist do?"  "What does a scientist look like?" We have a very fun lab to break-in our science brains with bubble gum!