I hope everyone enjoyed the beautiful weekend!<\/p>\n
This week’s Spelling words focus on the sound of i, long and short. did, fix, trick, fine, hike. The Dolch words: find, like, live, five, little<\/p>\n
The students are settling in very well to our Daily 5 routine. We have been doing Read to Self, Work on Writing, Word Work, Read to Someone and will begin Listen to Reading this week. I am still assessing some students with their reading levels and will begin meeting this week with everyone in their strategy groups.<\/p>\n
Our reading strategy this week is Summarizing a Plot for a realistic fiction story. We’ll also be reading the illustrations to help us understand the story better, and writing the Beginning–Middle–End summary together.<\/p>\n
We’ll continue this week with writing a personal narrative this week.<\/p>\n
Math will begin our unit of addition and subtraction strategies that does not focus on using our fingers \ud83d\ude09 though I know this is very common at this age and so I try to diminish the use of fingers as the year goes on.<\/p>\n
Social Studies will continue with our study of communities and the similarities and differences between rural\/small town–suburb–urban\/big cities<\/p>\n
We’ll continuing our study of the properties of Matter in Science by making hats that can protect us from the sun using everyday objects such as a paper bag, paper plate, string, and aluminum foil. It’s always fun to see what each student creates!<\/p>\n
Enjoy the week \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I hope everyone enjoyed the beautiful weekend! This week’s Spelling words focus on the sound of i, long and short. did, fix, trick, fine, hike. The Dolch words: find, like, live, five, little The students are settling in very well … Continue reading