Week of August 29th

Week 5 is over and now on to Week 6!

Here is a bit of what we learned last week...

Reader's Workshop/Daily 5--> I have rolled out the last component to our Daily 5 centers which was LISTEN TO READING. Students practiced logging in to computers in the classroom and going to the Raz-Kids website (you can also access this at home with the login card I sent home last Friday). We have also worked on READ TO SELF, READ TO SOMEONE, WORK ON WRITING, and WORD WORK. Asking Questions as we read and determining the Main Idea and Details of nonfiction texts were also a focus last week.

Phonics--> We finished our work with L-blend words. Students used letter cards, workmats, and finger writing to spell words with l-blends in them as well as practicing sight words for that unit. We took a spelling assessment on Friday to see how we are learning our l-blend words.

Math Workshop--> We have started our Math Journals and have been completing story problems in them. The students have been doing a great job with drawing a picture and including a number sentence to solve the problems. We have also focused on tens and ones as well as decomposing numbers (ex: 12 is 1 ten and 2 ones and it is also 12 ones). We have worked on number puzzles to 120, counting by 10s using dimes, and showing 2-digit numbers using base 10 blocks.

Science--> We finished up our unit on weather. The students are still working on a weather journal, recording the daily weather, characteristics, and illustrating what the weather was like for that day.

Writer's Workshop--> We are still working on narrative writing (stories of events that have happened to us). Small moment writing has been a focus. The students are choosing topics that aren't so broad (like going on vacation), rather choosing one part of the vacation to focus on. We also got to choose our favorite piece of writing and set it out on our desk for a Museum Walk. They absolutely LOVED this! They are beginning to take pride in their work!!

Have a wonderful week!