“Team 41 News”
Upcoming Events and Reminders
October 10 No School Columbus Day
October 12 No School Yom Kippur
October 13 Wear Hastings Hero T Shirts
October 20 Family Friends
October 25 New England States & Capitals Test
October 26 Fall Conferences Begin
October 28 Pumpkin Math
October 28 Hastings School Halloween Party
October 30 Diwali
Conversation Starters
Here’s a snippet of what we’ve done since the last Conversation Starters. Ask your child to elaborate.
· Hastings Heroes
· Graphs, line plots and graphing data
· Subtraction on an open number line
· 6 New England States
· Continents and oceans
· Cursive packets
· Massachusetts
· 5 states that border Massachusetts
· Reading faster, longer and stronger
· Just right books and levels
· Book bags
· Book bag contract
· Money Review
· Time Review
· Cartographer-Mapping Massachusetts
· Reading assessment: Abby Takes her Shot
· Wrote about special places, people and emotions
· Joseph got his braces off
· Morning meeting
· Adding to the heart in the writing notebook
· Book shopping in classroom library
· Name collection boxes for numbers
· Checking your understanding in reading
· Stone Fox
· Funny Bunny
· Perseverance
· Big Backyard walk
· Useful plants during Colonial Times
· 3 X 3 descriptive writing about nouns
· Changed seats
· Painting a picture or making a movie in your head when reading
· Checking comprehension: Who is in this part? What just happened? Does this fit with something that already happened, or is this new?
· Making predictions based on what has already happened in the story
· Stretch-To –Go (F.A.S.T.T. Math at home)
· Map Key & Compass Rose
· Frames and Arrows
· Kindness Recognitions
“A person who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
-Albert Einstein
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