Today we read a National Geographic Explorer magazine with a story called Robot Revolution.  Here are some more useful robots...

Robots for Kids Videos

Other skills this week included Steps in a Process and comparing and contrasting fiction/nonfiction text.

We will take our 16 Spelling Test Friday.

I will begin AIMS testing for fluency for the Winter Benchmark.  It will take a while to get through the entire class before reports are sent home, but we are in the process of completing this test.  Students orally read two probes to me.  Each story "probe" (selection) is a timed one-minute selection.  The goal is to make good progress in fluency (reading rate).