Happy Monday!! Here are the updates for the week!
In reading/Writing- This week, in writer’s workshop we will near the end of our narrative unit of study! We will discuss how to edit a piece that we plan on sharing with the class (students will share in a writing celebration next week). We will review “When we are done we have just begun” and how to write a TRUE story. Partners will continue to practice working together and we will review how we can plan our book before we begin. We will focus on adding more details to our pictures-not just drawing pictures that are floating in the middle of the page. Students will be thinking about the who, what, and where their story takes place to help with details in our pictures and writing. We will begin to add speech bubbles to our pictures too. This week, during reading, we will near the end of our first reading unit of study! I will be testing students on their reading levels, and we will discuss these during parent/teacher conferences. This week in social studies, we will continue talking about community helpers and how they are similar/different in other communities including other countries around the world, students’ role as a citizen in their community, and the different roles in a community.
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Happy Sunday !! I hope all of you had a great weekend . Here are some reminders for next week..
Snack for this week : Dan Fease Mystery Reader :Sarah Bristow- please let me know what book/activity you will be doing. It is Hispanic heritage month so a suggestion would be a book that correlates with it and I have a fun craft idea if you are interested . I will attach it to my email . Seesaw- If you have not signed up to your child's account yet, please do so that you can see the wonderful things they have been adding to their portfolio . Math This week in math, we will continue our counting unit! We will continue counting to 100 by 1’s and 10’s and writing numbers to 20. Please have your child practice writing their number to 20 ,as well as the number words . We will also be showing them how to add what they have learned in math to their digital portfolio (Seesaw). As your child becomes more comfortable with the program you will see a lot more activities added. Writing/Reading Partners will continue practice working together and we will review how we can plan our book before we begin. We continue to focus on adding more details to our pictures-not just drawing pictures that are floating in the middle of the page. Students will be thinking about the who, what, and where their story takes place to help with details in our pictures and writing. We will continue to work on adding speech bubbles to our pictures. They will also be practicing adding videos of them reading books. Please practice reading with them at home . Even if they are just reading the pictures , it is definitely a great start for them to feel comfortable and confident when learning how to read . Have a great rest of your weekend and I will see your kiddos on Monday :) Happy Tuesday! I hope everyone is staying safe from Irma!
Here is what is going on in our class this week: Friday is our checkout day! Please make sure students bring back their library books so they can check out a new one .On Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday students will be taking various assessments on Fast Bridge. Fast Bridge is a universal screener that everyone will be taking in Heards Ferry and Fulton County. This assessment will be given a few times a year so we can monitor student growth and meet the needs of each and every student Writing:This week, in writer’s workshop we continue our Lucy Calkins narrative unit of study. Along with “When we are done we have just begun,” we will talk about how students can revise their teaching piece and how to write a TRUE story.Partners will continue practice working together and we will review how we can plan our book before we begin. We will focus on adding more details to our pictures-not just drawing pictures that are floating in the middle of the page. Students will be thinking about the who, what, and where their story takes place to help with details in our pictures and writing. We will begin to add speech bubbles to our pictures too. Reading:During reading, students will begin reading fiction (old favorite storybooks) books from their book bins independently and with a partner and will also continue to read learn about the world books. We will focus on how “Readers Learn From Books, Too” and “We are Storybook Readers.” . Our minilessons will be about how we talk more and more like the characters, look at the pictures and words, etc. Math:This week in math, we will continue our counting unit! We will continue counting to 100 by 1’s and 10’s and writing numbers to 20. Students will be working on moving on to a new “decade” (19-20, 29-30, 39-40, etc.) Social Studies: This week in social studies, we will continue talking about community helpers and how they are similar/different in other communities including other countries around the world, students’ role as a citizen in their community, and the different roles in a community. We will also continue to add the learner profile words (communicator, thinker, and principled) as well as key concepts (function, connection, and responsibility) to our daily vocabulary. Writing
This week in writer’s workshop we continue our Lucy Calkins narrative unit of study. This week, we will talk about how students can revise their teaching piece (see below). We will also continue our saying "When we are done, we've just begun!". Students will be put in pairs that they will work with in writing and reading. Partners will practice working collaboratively, and being good COMMUNICATORS with each other. After I model, they will discuss things like asking questions, reading their pieces to each other, and giving suggestions to their partner about their writing. We will also introduce multi page stories and talk about how to use the stapler safely so students can add more pages to their books. Student will also begin to make cover pages for their books with a title and pictures/labels to match. What can you do at home?? Have students practice sounding out words and writing down the sounds they hear on paper long with drawing pictures with details and labels on their pictures. You can also remind students that when writing, the first letter in a sentence is uppercase and the rest is lower case, there are finger spaces between words, and periods at the end of sentences. We will continue to work on this in class. READING: During reading, students will continue reading/looking at nonfiction (teach about the world) books from their book bins independently and with a partner and will also begin reading old favorite storybooks. We will focus on how “Readers Learn From Books, Too” and “We are Storybook Readers.” What can you do at home?? Read every night like you are working with a partner (sit side by side, have a book in the middle, read back and forth.) Ask your child questions about what she/he is reading about. If your child seems to be focusing more on needing work with letters and letter sounds (which is PERFECTLY okay!), have them find letter in their books or around the house and ask them what sound it makes and visa-versa. Math This week in math we will continue our counting unit. This week students will be working on “exemplars,” which are higher order thinking word problems. Students will be following the strategy of CUBES (c-circle the numbers, u-underline the question, b-box the key words, e- evaluate (how can we solve this?), and s-solve.) We will also continue counting to 100 by 1’s and 10’s and writing numbers to 20 |
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