Week of October 3rd

Hello Parents! I hope everyone had a wonderful fall break. What BEAUTIFUL weather we have had! Here is a look at what we learned last week...

Reader's Workshop--> We are focusing on one book a week during our Mini Lessons. This week's book was Pumpkin Jack. We closely examined the book and practiced various reading skills such as visualizing, making inferences, identifying the character, setting and  events, using our schema (things we already know before we read). The students are doing a great job at using their head phones during Listen to Reading. Thank you to all who have brought in their own head phones.

Phonics--> We practiced with words that have final "n" clusters...ex: "ng", "nt", "nk" words.

Math Workshop--> We reviewed our standards from the first nine weeks each day. We practiced numbers to 120, addition and subtraction within 10, collecting data to put into a tally chart, and solving word problems within 10.

Writer's Workshop--> We have finished our unit on Narrative writing (Small Moment Stories). We focused on EDITING our writing using our own editing checklists that the students will keep in their writing binders. (ex: Do I have punctuation at the end of my sentences? Did I use all that I know about words and chunks of words to spell other words? Did I use the word wall to spell words? ...etc.)

Social Studies--> We reviewed Landforms from the beginning of the quarter.

Have a wonderful week!