What We Did During Our Week:
Reading and Writing:
We have been working on writing narratives during writer’s workshop. They write their story in sequential order using ‘first, next, last’. We are also working on asking questions about our writing so that we can use this information to add more details.
For our writer’s workshop model, they do pre-writing, drafting, editing, conferencing with me, and then get to publish and share their work!
Step 3 – Editing and Conferencing
Step 5 – Sharing
For reading we have learning about syllables and knowing how to count them. In addition, we are using syllables to help us stretch out reading and writing longer words. They completed a seesaw assignment for syllables.
We have introduced the vowels. We went around the room to find vowels in our writings, and have focused on the short a vowel so far.
Reading book bags should be coming home every single night. Make sure that you child is reading from this every night. Reading has been proven to be the most effective way to help with academics!
We also wrote goals that we have for the year! They each wrote a behavior goal, a math goal, and then a reading/writing goal!
Math:
Math books were finally sent home! You should have started this week with the appropriate lesson stapled to the front. Try to do one lesson a day at home, but I do not need these sent back to me. 🙂
Science and social studies:
We are learning about how to be a good citizen for social studies and will begin learning about sound in science!
Other:
We had a fundraiser assembly on Thursday for Otis Spunkmeyer.
Field trip forms were sent home, please return these no later than the 11th. If you would like to chaperone or attend the field trip with us, please indicate so on the form and provide $5 for you.
Looking forward to our first field trip!
Upcoming Events:
Friday, October 11th – half day pick up at 11:40am
Wednesday, October 16th – LATE START
Friday, October 25th – Apple Orchard Field Trip!
Thursday, October 31st – Halloween Party!
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