News and Information:
Monday, October 8th: Field Trip to the Apple Orchard
Friday, October 12th: Half Day of School
Wednesday, October 17th: Late Start
What We Did This Week:
ELA:
- Our letters of the week were Oo, Ii
- Our sight words were come, and (we will add these to our ring of words Monday).
- We read stories with rhyming words, we talked about “the characters” of our stories and the beginning, middle and end of our stories.
- Our Poem this week was “My Puppy!”
- We rotated through Daily 5 (read to self, work on writing and word work). We are beginning to meet in small groups.
- In Writer’s Workshop students wrote in their journals after participating in a “shared writing” with me. They are helping to record the sounds they here in words.
Math:
- I used this week to assess Module 1. I pulled students one on one to assess while the others worked in math centers.
Leader in Me/ Social Studies:
- We hung our mission statement outside our room.
- We had our first “First Class” meeting. Students are grouped with other teachers and other multi-age students – we discussed Habit 1, “Be Proactive”
- We attended a whole school assembly
- We are talking about “being responsible.
Science:
- We discussed push and pull and introduced force.
We visited Gym, Art, Music and Media.
We played during Free Choice Time.
- Alphabet Books were due Today (Letter I and Letter O page). I will return them on Monday.
- Nightly Literacy Homework for October can be turned in Monday.
- Reading bags should travel back and forth to school daily in the backpack. The ring of words should be in the reading bag.
Have a great weekend!