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going on in the classroom.  Also don't forget that our Science, Reading, and AR are now online.
•  Last year, the Fourth Grade class started a "worldly" adventure! They decided to send paper pheasants (colored by the entire class) abroad to help expand their knowledge of our world.  Mrs. Dennert's niece, Summer, took the first pheasant back to China.  We've had other birds fly off to Spain & Russia!  If you are planning a trip out of the country and you'd like to help our class expand their horizons, contact someone in fourth grade. For more info - go to - http://cd010.k12.sd.us/ges_4th_grade_pheasant_travels.htm
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•  Title I - Nancy Cutler, Lynette Grieve, & Bonnie Schimmel,
•  Title I Math
· Kindergarten finished learning patterns with shapes and colors.  They are learning to find patterns in the world around them. Left and Right is the next skill we are trying to master.
•  · First grade is working finding math partners for seven, eight, nine, ten and reviewing counting by tens.
•  · Second grade has begun to review addition and subtraction. We are trying to use doubles to help us add and subtract. We are doing some two-step story problems with both addition and subtraction.
•  · Third grade is working on story problems and numbers in expanded, word and standard form. We have begun to do some adding and subtracting with money to show regrouping.
•  · Fourth grade has completed rounding numbers in the thousands and millions and estimating sums and differences. They are adding and subtracting 4 digit numbers. They are practicing some mental math to help speed things up for the future.
•  · Fifth grade is rounding whole numbers and decimals. Problem solving is a very important skill in Math. The next chapter will be expressions and variables.
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•  Title I Reading
•  Life is good in Title I Reading.  We have completed DIBELS benchmarking with all students.  We have begun AIMSweb progress monitoring for all students and we are in the process of completing a phonics screener with most students.  The information we generate from these screeners help us to make informed decisions for reading instructions. 
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