Happy Friday! We made it through a long week. As a reminder, we have school next week.
Here is a re-cap of what we did this week:
Reading: We continued our Mo Willems unit by reading more Piggie and Elephant books. The students absolutely love this series. We discussed character traits and did a compare and contrast venn diagram. Students also observed the illustrations to analyze how you can interpret how a character is feeling by observing the pictures. Students also participated in their normal reading centers: guided reading, word work, book work, read-to-self, and handwriting.
We also started using the program, Explode the Code, this week. It has fun mini lessons for reviewing short vowels.
Writing: This week, we continued working on adjectives. Students created robots and wrote descriptions of them. On Thursday, I read the book, Snowmen at Night, and students created their own crayon-resist snowmen scene. Next week, students will be writing a story about what their snowmen do at night.
Math: We worked on skip counting forward and backwards by 10’s. Students worked on more challenging skip counting by starting at a random number, like 23, & skip counting by 10’s past 100.
Social Studies: Students started working on their oil pastel banyan tree projects, They are coming out beautifully!
Have a lovely weekend and a wonderful winter break! Andrea
Friday, December 19, 2014
Friday, December 12, 2014
Friday Letter December 12, 2014
Happy Friday! The students did a wonderful job at the Winter Concert last night! I am so proud of them.
As you may know, we have been having a tough time with sicknesses lately. This week, we talked about how & when we should wash our hands. Please remind your child of good hand-washing practices at home. I want everyone to be healthy for the Winter Break. From now on, I am asking students to bring their water bottles home everyday with them to get cleaned.
Here is a re-cap of what we did this week:
Math: We have been working on improving our mental math with skip counting. This week, we worked on skip counting by 5’s and next week we will work with skip counting by 10’s.
Reading: We started our Mo Willems unit this week. We began our study with the Piggy and Elephant series. Students will be working on fluency as they read these fun books. This week, we became familiar with the characters. We started to talk about character traits. Students also did their weekly reading centers: word work, handwriting, and a book work activity.
Writing: We have been working on stretching our sentences. This week, we worked on adjectives. Adjectives can make our sentences more detailed and sound better. We will continue this next week.
Social Studies: Students have been sketching their banyan trees all week. On Thursday, students were able to work with their reading buddies on them. Today, we plan on starting the actual project.
Have a wonderful weekend! Andrea
As you may know, we have been having a tough time with sicknesses lately. This week, we talked about how & when we should wash our hands. Please remind your child of good hand-washing practices at home. I want everyone to be healthy for the Winter Break. From now on, I am asking students to bring their water bottles home everyday with them to get cleaned.
Here is a re-cap of what we did this week:
Math: We have been working on improving our mental math with skip counting. This week, we worked on skip counting by 5’s and next week we will work with skip counting by 10’s.
Reading: We started our Mo Willems unit this week. We began our study with the Piggy and Elephant series. Students will be working on fluency as they read these fun books. This week, we became familiar with the characters. We started to talk about character traits. Students also did their weekly reading centers: word work, handwriting, and a book work activity.
Writing: We have been working on stretching our sentences. This week, we worked on adjectives. Adjectives can make our sentences more detailed and sound better. We will continue this next week.
Social Studies: Students have been sketching their banyan trees all week. On Thursday, students were able to work with their reading buddies on them. Today, we plan on starting the actual project.
Have a wonderful weekend! Andrea
Friday, December 5, 2014
Friday Letter December 5, 2014
Here is a re-cap of the week:
Math: Students have been working on skip counting. This week, we focused on counting by two’s, to 100. Students were given story problems where they had to group objects by two’s to find the answer. Next week, we will review skip counting by 5’s and 10’s.
Writing: We have been working on stretching our sentences to make them more detailed. This week, we worked on adding the what, why, or when part to a sentence. Next week, we will be working on putting adjectives into our sentences to make them more detailed.
Reading: We finished up our Strega Nona unit this Friday. All week, we have been looking at character traits. Students have been comparing and contrasting the characters. Today, students will be choosing their favorite Strega Nona character and making a portrait of him/her, and then write why they chose that character as their favorite. We also continued our regular literacy centers focusing on the word family of the week, handwriting, independent reading, and unscrambling words to make sentences.
Social Studies: This week, I read the story, In the Heart of the Village. It is a story about the importance of the banyan tree to many Indians who practice Hinduism. Students will be creating their own banyan trees next week.
Have a lovely weekend! Andrea
Math: Students have been working on skip counting. This week, we focused on counting by two’s, to 100. Students were given story problems where they had to group objects by two’s to find the answer. Next week, we will review skip counting by 5’s and 10’s.
Writing: We have been working on stretching our sentences to make them more detailed. This week, we worked on adding the what, why, or when part to a sentence. Next week, we will be working on putting adjectives into our sentences to make them more detailed.
Reading: We finished up our Strega Nona unit this Friday. All week, we have been looking at character traits. Students have been comparing and contrasting the characters. Today, students will be choosing their favorite Strega Nona character and making a portrait of him/her, and then write why they chose that character as their favorite. We also continued our regular literacy centers focusing on the word family of the week, handwriting, independent reading, and unscrambling words to make sentences.
Social Studies: This week, I read the story, In the Heart of the Village. It is a story about the importance of the banyan tree to many Indians who practice Hinduism. Students will be creating their own banyan trees next week.
Have a lovely weekend! Andrea
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