In writer’s workshop we will continue our informational unit. We collected artifacts outside and have begun writing information about what we know and drawing detailed diagrams with labels. This week we will also begin our pumpkin journal! We will watch a piece of a pumpkin over a period of time and watch it change while drawing diagrams and writing information about what we see. We will learn about how Scientist Observe and Learn”
-Look -Listen -Touch -Look Again -Ask Questions: What is the reason for?... Why does?... Say things like- I Wonder, I noticed, I’m thinking “What should I look closely at?” (Color, Size, Shape, Parts, Special Details, Texture) What can you do at home?? Have students practice sounding out words and writing down the sounds they hear on paper and draw pictures with details and label 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, our mini lessons will focus on sharing labels and thoughts about books with our partners as well as asking our partners questions about what we are reading. We will continue to work in guided reading groups, students will work on building their reading stamina independently, and work on IRead. 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, etc.) and ask your child questions about what she/he is reading about. For students who need to work on letters and letter sounds, you can have students find letters around the house and ask them what sounds they make. This week in math, students will take their counting post assessment and towards the end of the week we will take our next unit pre-assessment on shapes Even though we are starting a new unit it is important for students to continue practicing counting to 100 by 1’s and 10’s every night and practicing writing their numbers! Here are the standards for shapes: K.G Identify and describe shapes (squares, circles, triangles, rectangles, hexagons, cubes, cones, cylinders, and spheres). MGSEK.G.1 Describe objects in the environment using names of shapes, and describe the relative positions of these objects using terms such as above, below, beside, in front of, behind, and next to. MGSEK.G.2 Correctly name shapes regardless of their orientations or overall size. MGSEK.G.3 Identify shapes as two-dimensional (lying in a plane, “flat”) or three-dimensional (“solid”). 3 Limit category counts to be less than or equal to 10. MGSEK.G. 4 Analyze and compare two- and three-dimensional shapes, in different sizes and orientations, using informal language to describe their similarities, differences, parts (e.g., number of sides and vertices/“corners”) and other attributes (e.g., having sides of equal length). MGSEK.G. 5 Model shapes in the world by building shapes from components (e.g., sticks and clay balls) and drawing shapes. MGSEK.G. 6 Compose simple shapes to form larger shapes. For example, “Can you join these two triangles with full sides touching to make a rectangle?” |
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