September 28, 2018

Ulrich’s Utterings
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OSU Women’s Basketball: This week the students had the special privilege of having members of
the OSU Women’s basketball team, along with Coach Ely give a basketball clinic during PE. 

Math
This week we began our graphing unit. We began with bar and
pictographs. Students took their survey data from Tuesday
Shout Outs
night’s homework and created bar graphs (see picture below) A shout out to Jin for being a great partner to
and wrote at least 4 observations from their data. We created
his peers during work time.
a pictograph together (see picture) and then students made
their own pictographs from the same survey data as their bar A shout out to Sophie for working hard to finish
graphs. Today we moved on to line plots. We will also be her work!
making line graphs.
A shout out to Aidan! Happy Birthday! 
Our unit will also

include creating Reading

and reading This week in reading the students:

Venn diagrams 1. Had reading center with me where we

worked on spelling/spelling patterns, reading
and probability. fluently, determining the author’s purpose
and I introduced summarizing.
2. Other centers included: Spelling (activities
Writing included using a thesaurus, sorting words
based on vowel sounds, and using words in
Students worked hard on their small sentences); Writing (they worked on the Star
moments writing this week. Students Student of the Week writing. Our Start Student
this week was Eli); Quiet reading time.
zoomed in on one event and they are working hard on
adding in details, describing and
Science: We continued our study of plants, adding
sensory words. The picture to the
to our plant diagram. Students learned how plants make
right is of the partner writing
their own food. We watched a “Magic School Bus” video
students did for their first small and students practiced taking notes.
moments piece.

Apple-mania: TONIGHT! Bike-to-School: 10/2

Pumpkin Patch Field Trip: 10/10—9:30-11:00 am
Stonybrook Assisted Living Fieldtrip: 10/31
Halloween Parade & Party: 10/31 1:20 pm

Communication:
Email: culrich@ashbrookschool.org
541-766-1071 Leaf diagrams.