Students have begun books shopping for books. Students will shop for 10 new books once a week. They will keep their books in a special bucket in the room. During reading workshop, students will get their buckets and set up for reading. This week, students learned to make a plan for their reading. Choosing which books to read first and knowing to reread books makes workshop run smoothly. During private and partner reading, I am pulling students to read books in a group. Mrs, King will pull kids to preview new books and pull students to reinforce skills.
Students have learned they have:
- Pointer power
- Reread power
- Partner power
- Picture power
- Snap word power
- Sound power
- Persistence power
- Pattern power
- Book talk power
Things to do at home:
Read books coming home in folders and return folders and books daily!
Writing Workshop
Students are working on showing and telling things that cannot fit into ziploc bags like places they have gone. Students are working on adding more labels. Labels can help tell how something feels, smells, tastes, looks like, or sounds like.
Things to do at home:
Drawing objects
Labeling the parts
Add a sentence to tell
Word Work and Phonemic Awareness Skills
This week, students learned 2 new letters.
V - van /v/ w - wind /w/
Taught letters: t, b, f, n, m, i, u, c, o, a, g, d, s, e, r, p, j, l, h, k, v ,w
Snap words: I, a, see, the, at, like, look, like, it, in, is, my
Things to do at home:
Practice letter recognition, sound, and handwriting formation
Rhyme - identify and generate
Listen for first sounds in words and identify multiple words that start with the same sound
Syllables in words
Math Workshop
Students have completed the second math unit. Students were assessed this week and will begin next week with numbers 6-10.
Things to do at home:
Write numbers 1-5
Introduce 6-10
You can rote count to 30
Count a group of objects to ten
Social Studies
We will celebrate Thanksgiving just as a class on Wednesday, Nov. 27. A Sign UP Genius will be coming around for a few things we need.
Please help students to learn how to zip coats as the weather gets colder and practice tying shoes!
Important Dates
11/20- PTO Meeting- 5:30pm
11/27- Early Dismissal- Thanksgiving Break
11/28- Thanksgiving Holiday- no school
11/29- Thanksgiving Break- no school