This week in:
Shared Reading/Concepts-We will read different versions of The Gingerbread Man and compare and contrast them. We will also learn the word refrain and discuss the different refrains in the stories. We will learn about plays and the different parts such as the narrator, characters, ect....We will practice and perform our play for our families on Friday morning at 8:00 in the cafeteria. Everyone is invited to come and decorate a gingerbread house with your monkey and then stay for the play. If you have an apron you would like to send in on Wednesday for your child that would be great! I have a few to share if you don't have one please do not buy one. Please put your name on the apron if you send one in.
Daily 5 Reading-We will work on our gingerbread play. We will learn about plays, characters, refrains, quotation marks, narrators, etc...and practice.
Daily 5 Writing- We will record our findings of the different versions of The Gingerbread Man.
Reminders
*Gingerbread house decorating and play Friday, December 11 at 8:00 in the OPES cafeteria. All are invited!
*No walking school bus this Friday due to the play.
Friday, December 4, 2015
Reindeer!
This week in:
Shared Reading/Concepts-We will discuss genre and do a non-fiction study on reindeer. The boys and girls will learn all about reindeer. We will discuss fact and opinion. On Friday we will have reindeer day! We will dress up as reindeer and play reindeer games!
Daily 5 Reading- We will work on our goal of fluency by focusing on the strategy of becoming a voracious reader. Readers increase their vocabulary by reading, reading, and reading. the number of words in your meaning vocabulary store is directly related to how much you read. children who read the most have the biggest vocabularies.
Daily 5 Math-We are continuing our study of operations and algebraic thinking by continuing to work on our addition strategies and fluency.
Writer's Workshop-We will be writing reindeer facts and labeling reindeer.
Reminders:
*No walking school bus this week due to my early morning duty.
Friday, November 20, 2015
Friday, November 6, 2015
Pilgrims
This week in:
Shared Reading/Concepts-We will learn all about the pilgrims and how they lived. We will make pilgrim clothes for ourselves, read lots of great books about pilgrims, create pilgrim crafts, and much more! We will also discuss Veterans Day this week and observe it Wednesday at the flag pole at 7:45. All families are invited to attend.
Daily 5 Reading-Our reading goal this week is fluency and our strategy is practicing common sight words and high-frequency words. Children recognize at first sight the most commonly used English words found in reading. Many of these words are irregular words that do not follow a decoding rule or pattern. Once readers remember these words, they can read them quickly and understand what they said. A very early stage of fluent reading is being able to read words by sight. Knowing them quickly will allow readers to understand what is being read.
Writer's Workshop-We will work on drawing stories for readers. We will teach the boys and girls that if you get so busy writing one word-like-pencil- and forget the whole story you wanted to write, you can look back up at your picture. The picture can remind you of the story, of all the words you wanted to write. But the picture helps you remember the story only if, when you made the picture, you were thinking about the words of the story.
Daily 5 Math-We are continuing our unit on operations and algebraic thinking by learning addition. The boys and girls have learned the math vocabulary words addend, plus, equal, and sum. This week we will learn strategies such as hammer and nail, plus zero, plus one, and doubles.
Reminders
*Wednesday, November 11th we will meet at the flag pole as a school at 7:45 to observe Veterans Day. All families are invited to come.
*Wednesday, November 11th we will go to the book fair as a class during our related arts time. You are invited to come to the book fair with us from 10-10:45. Please meet us in the library if you are able to come. If you are unable to come and would like for your child to purchase books please just send an envelope with money marked with your child's first and last name and book fair.
Shared Reading/Concepts-We will learn all about the pilgrims and how they lived. We will make pilgrim clothes for ourselves, read lots of great books about pilgrims, create pilgrim crafts, and much more! We will also discuss Veterans Day this week and observe it Wednesday at the flag pole at 7:45. All families are invited to attend.
Daily 5 Reading-Our reading goal this week is fluency and our strategy is practicing common sight words and high-frequency words. Children recognize at first sight the most commonly used English words found in reading. Many of these words are irregular words that do not follow a decoding rule or pattern. Once readers remember these words, they can read them quickly and understand what they said. A very early stage of fluent reading is being able to read words by sight. Knowing them quickly will allow readers to understand what is being read.
Writer's Workshop-We will work on drawing stories for readers. We will teach the boys and girls that if you get so busy writing one word-like-pencil- and forget the whole story you wanted to write, you can look back up at your picture. The picture can remind you of the story, of all the words you wanted to write. But the picture helps you remember the story only if, when you made the picture, you were thinking about the words of the story.
Daily 5 Math-We are continuing our unit on operations and algebraic thinking by learning addition. The boys and girls have learned the math vocabulary words addend, plus, equal, and sum. This week we will learn strategies such as hammer and nail, plus zero, plus one, and doubles.
Reminders
*Wednesday, November 11th we will meet at the flag pole as a school at 7:45 to observe Veterans Day. All families are invited to come.
*Wednesday, November 11th we will go to the book fair as a class during our related arts time. You are invited to come to the book fair with us from 10-10:45. Please meet us in the library if you are able to come. If you are unable to come and would like for your child to purchase books please just send an envelope with money marked with your child's first and last name and book fair.
Thursday, October 29, 2015
Native Americans
This week in:
Shared Reading/Concepts-We will study life long ago and today by learning about Native Americans. We will build a life size tepee for our classroom, make Native American clothes for ourselves with pillowcases, give ourselves Native American names, learn Native American symbols and use them to decorate and write, have a yummy tepee snack, and much more!
Daily 5 Reading-We will work on the goal of accuracy and the strategy of blending sounds, stretching and rereading. Students will take the individual sounds of letters and phonemes and blend them together them together to read words accurately.
Daily 5 Math-We will begin our unit on operations and algebraic thinking and begin addition!
Writer's Workshop-We will learn how to write for readers. We will begin to aim our teaching at helping the children write more conventionally. As we continue to learn about personal narratives we will continue to channel the children to pay attention to content, craft, and process while also support a new awareness of conventions.
Reminders
*Please send in a gently used or new pillowcase by Wednesday with your child's name on the inside. Please do not send anything nice. We will be cutting and painting them. :)
*Thank you so much for all the items you send in! We have a WONDERFUL classroom family!
Shared Reading/Concepts-We will study life long ago and today by learning about Native Americans. We will build a life size tepee for our classroom, make Native American clothes for ourselves with pillowcases, give ourselves Native American names, learn Native American symbols and use them to decorate and write, have a yummy tepee snack, and much more!
Daily 5 Reading-We will work on the goal of accuracy and the strategy of blending sounds, stretching and rereading. Students will take the individual sounds of letters and phonemes and blend them together them together to read words accurately.
Daily 5 Math-We will begin our unit on operations and algebraic thinking and begin addition!
Writer's Workshop-We will learn how to write for readers. We will begin to aim our teaching at helping the children write more conventionally. As we continue to learn about personal narratives we will continue to channel the children to pay attention to content, craft, and process while also support a new awareness of conventions.
Reminders
*Please send in a gently used or new pillowcase by Wednesday with your child's name on the inside. Please do not send anything nice. We will be cutting and painting them. :)
*Thank you so much for all the items you send in! We have a WONDERFUL classroom family!
Scarecrows!
This week in:
Shared Reading/Concepts-Our theme will be scarecrows. In science we will compare and contrast ourselves to scarecrows and learn about living and non-living things. On Friday we will build a life size scarecrow for our garden and make a special scarecrow snack! You are welcome to dress up like a scarecrow on Friday!
Daily 5 Reading-Our goal this week is accuracy and our strategy is using beginning and ending sounds to decode words.
Writer's Workshop-The boys and girls are doing a great job learning how to write personal narratives. We have begun using rubrics to reflect and self assess our writing.
Daily 5 Math-We are focusing on greater and less than and using the symbols and phrasing correctly.
Reminders:
*Red Ribbon Week is this week!
· Monday – “I respect myself” – wear RED to kick off Red Ribbon Week
Shared Reading/Concepts-Our theme will be scarecrows. In science we will compare and contrast ourselves to scarecrows and learn about living and non-living things. On Friday we will build a life size scarecrow for our garden and make a special scarecrow snack! You are welcome to dress up like a scarecrow on Friday!
Daily 5 Reading-Our goal this week is accuracy and our strategy is using beginning and ending sounds to decode words.
Writer's Workshop-The boys and girls are doing a great job learning how to write personal narratives. We have begun using rubrics to reflect and self assess our writing.
Daily 5 Math-We are focusing on greater and less than and using the symbols and phrasing correctly.
Reminders:
*Red Ribbon Week is this week!
· Monday – “I respect myself” – wear RED to kick off Red Ribbon Week
· Tuesday – “I’m too bright to do drugs” – wear neon colors and sunglasses
· Wednesday – “Sock it to drugs” – wear crazy socks
· Thursday – “We’re teaming up against drugs” – wear your favorite team jersey
· Friday – “Staying drug-free is no sweat” – wear sweatpants or a sweatshirt (you know you want too!)
*Wednesday is the 50th day of school! Can you believe it?!
*Friday is scarecrow day in our classroom! You can dress up like a scarecrow if you like! Suggestions might be plaid shirt, straw hat, jeans, or khaki pants.
*No walking school bus this week due to an early meeting for me
*No walking school bus this week due to an early meeting for me
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