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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.
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