Native Americans

This week in:

Shared Reading/Concepts-We will learn about Native Americans and life long ago. We will learn about the Wampanaug Indians who met the Pilgrims. We will make Native American outfits, learn how to make Native American symbols, make a life size teepee, a teepee snack, and more! It will be a fun week!

Daily 5 Reading-We will learn the strategy flip the sound under the goal of accuracy. The boys and girls will learn to use their knowledge of letter sounds to decode words by trying out, or flipping the different sounds a letter can make until they hear a word they recognize and that makes sense.

Guided Math-We are continuing to learn addition strategies.

Writer's Workshop- We are learning to self assess by using a check list for narrative writing. Our checklist includes: I told, drew, and wrote a whole story, I had a page that showed what happened first, I put my pages in order, I had a page that showed what happened last in my story, My story had a page for the beginning, the middle, and a page for the end, My story indicated who was there, what they did, and how the characters felt, I drew and wrote some details about whta happened, I could read my writing, I wrote a letter for the sounds I heard, I used the word wall to help me spell. Whew! We have learned a lot!

Reminders
*Chick-fil-A Spirit Night is Tuesday, November 15th from 5-8. Come have dinner with Mrs McMillan and Mrs. Hunt! Don't forget to check in with a PTO representative and let them know you are there for our class.
*Wednesday, November 16th Banks Trail Middle School students are coming to perform a play for kindergarten!
*Tuesday, November 22nd we will have our classroom Thanksgiving Feast! We will be eating in our classroom around 12:00 on this day. Everyone is welcome to come however, we will only have enough food prepared for the little pilgrims and Indians! :)
*No school November 23rd-25th. Happy Thanksgiving to all my sweet little monkeys and their sweet families! Mrs. Hunt and I are thankful for you this Thanksgiving! Gobble till you wobble!

 A HUGE thank you to Mrs. Todd for bringing us beautiful fall flowers for our garden and helping us plant!!!!!

Pilgrims and Veterans!

This week in:

Shared Reading/Concepts-We will begin learning about the pilgrims and life long ago. We will also learn what a veteran is and celebrate Veteran's Day on Friday with by wearing red, white, and blue and having a Veteran's Day parade at 9:40 in front of the school. Everyone is invited!

Daily 5 Reading-We will focus on the strategy of trading a word/guess a word that makes sense under the goal of accuracy. When readers encounter words they don't know, but they understand the gist of the text, they insert a word that makes sense in place of the unknown word.

Writer's Workshop- We are finishing up our unit on personal narratives! This week and next we are using all we know to select and revise a piece to publish!

Guided Math-We are working hard to learn addition strategies! Please ask your child their doubles facts! This will help them with strategies such as doubles plus one and later on with doubles minus one, repeated addition, and even later on multiplication!

Reminders
*Parade at 9:40 in front of the school on Friday. Wear red, white, and blue!

Election

This week in:

Shared Reading/Concepts-We will learn what an election is, what candidates are, and what is the presidents job. We will discuss the qualities we would like for our president to have and read the books Grace for President, Duck for President, and My Teacher for President. We will discuss the qualities of each candidate, register to vote, and cast our ballets on Monday in our class election booth. We will let you know who won our class election!

Daily 5 Reading-We are working on the goal of fluency by focusing on the strategy of rereading text. Students reread a selection of text several times until they can read it smoothly, accurately, and with expression. Children benefit from this rereading because of the ease with which it can be implemented in the classroom. Students can reread by themselves or with a partner and with any good fit books they are reading.

Guided Math-We are working on addition strategies and fluency with our addition facts.

Writer's Workshop-We are continuing to work on learning how to write personal narrative and becoming independent writers.

Reminders
*No school Tuesday, November 8th
*Chick-Fil-A Spirit Night from 5-8 on Tuesday, November 15th wear your monkey shirt to school and Chick-Fil-A!
*OPES Spirit Day is Friday, November 18th wear your OPES gear
*No school November 23rd-25th. Happy Thanksgiving!