Random Acts of Kindness/Friendship

This week in:

Shared Reading/Concepts-We will read books about friendship and discuss them. We will do randoms acts of kindness for others in our school. On Tuesday we will celebrate Valentine's Day in our classroom with by delivering our cards to our friends and enjoying a special treat! We will also learn to dance the cupid shuffle and play a few friend based games. :)

Guided Reading-We will work on the strategy of rereading text under our goal of fluency. For this strategy to improve fluency, students must read from a good-fit book. If students are choosing books that are too difficult, their cognitive demand and energy will be spent on decoding words, with little left for fluent reading.

Writer's Workshop-We are continuing to learn and practice the writing genre of information books by writing how to books. This week we are learning to reflect and set goals to create our best information writing. We are learning how to use a rubric or checklist to check our own writing.

Guided Math-We are continuing to learn and practice place value. Next week Mrs. Hunt our math specialist will be coming in on Friday to help us start Marcy Cook Math. We will do this every Friday and more information will be posted on the blog soon.

Reminders
*Valentine box and cards are due on Tuesday. Please add our Winthrop intern Ms. Burroughs to your list.
*Thank you to all the families who sent in special treats to help make the Valentines day extra fun! :)

Dental Health

This week in:

Shared Reading/Concepts-We will study dental health.We will learn why we need our teeth, how to care for them, their name and jobs, and much more! We will do an experiment with an egg in coke and an egg in water. We will have a visit from a dentist.

Guided Reading-We will work on the strategy of using pictures, illustrations, and diagrams under the goal of expanding our vocabulary. Illustrations give clues about the meaning of words and text. Paying attention to the pictures may confirm meaning of words.

Writer's Workshop-We are continuing writing information books (how to). We are learning how illustrations help the reader. We are adding diagrams to our how to books.

Guided Math-We are learning about place value. We are learning that units equal 1, rods, equal 10, and flats equal 100. We are learning to use units, rods, and flats to represent numbers.

Martin Luther King and Kindness

This week in:

Shared Reading/Concepts-We will learn about Martin Luther King and how he impacted the world today. We will discuss ways we can make the world a better place.

Daily 5 Reading-We are focusing on the goal of comprehension and the strategy of summarizing text. We have learned that summarizing text means to take text and reduce it to the bare essentials: the gist, the key idea, and the main points that are work noting and remembering.

Writer's Workshop-We are continuing our unit on information writing by learning how to write a how to book. We have learned that to write a how to book we have to know about the topic we are writing about and teach it to the reader in a sequential order/steps.

Guided Math-We are continuing our unit on operations and algebraic thinking by focusing on subtraction and subtraction strategies. We have learned we can use maniupulatives, draw pictures, use ten frames, use our fingers, and use number lines. We have started to work on our fluency by practicing minus 0, minus 1, and backwards doubles.

Reminders
*Chick-Fil-A Spirit night is Tuesday, January 17th from 5-8,
*Next Monday, January 23rd we will celebrate the 100th day of school by dressing up like we are 100 years old! We can't wait to see everyone and celebrate being 100 days smarter!