{"id":169,"date":"2013-12-11T12:33:46","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T17:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/?p=169"},"modified":"2013-12-11T12:33:46","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T17:33:46","slug":"wednesday-dec-11-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/2013\/12\/11\/wednesday-dec-11-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Social studies we are learning about\u00a0<strong>NEEDS AND WANTS.<\/strong> \u00a0We made a chart with the 4 Basic Needs-Air, Water, Food, Shelter on one side and things we might Want on the other side-toys, candy, money, TV. \u00a0they really understand the differences between\u00a0<strong>needing\u00a0<\/strong>something and\u00a0<strong>wanting\u00a0<\/strong>something.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>READING AND WRITING-I read\u00a0<strong>The Little Gingerbread Man<\/strong> \u00a0and\u00a0<strong>The Gingerbread Girl.<\/strong> \u00a0We found several things that were the same and some things that were different in the stories. \u00a0(Compare and Contrast texts)<\/p>\n<p>Next they made a Gingerbread Man. \u00a0Then they thought of to where their Gingerbread could be running and what he would do when he got there. \u00a0They did a\u00a0<strong>prewrite<\/strong> yesterday. \u00a0I then conferenced with each student to\u00a0<strong>revise\u00a0<\/strong>and \u00a0<strong>edit\u00a0<\/strong>their writing. \u00a0Today we are<strong> publishing\u00a0<\/strong>their writing. \u00a0Lots of good ideas and sentences going on in here. \u00a0Continue to reinforce &#8220;stretching out&#8221; a word as they write. \u00a0Say the word slowly. \u00a0With reading, I tell them to &#8220;push though the word. \u00a0Thanks for your continued support at home.<\/p>\n<p>Later today we will be writing to our Pencil Pals in a Woodhaven School. \u00a0The teacher&#8217;s class \u00a0and my class have been Pencil Pals for many years. \u00a0We write back and forth all year long and finally get to meet each other in June!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Social studies we are learning about\u00a0NEEDS AND WANTS. \u00a0We made a chart with the 4 Basic Needs-Air, Water, Food, Shelter on one side and things we might Want on the other side-toys, candy, money, TV. \u00a0they really understand the differences between\u00a0needing\u00a0something and\u00a0wanting\u00a0something. &nbsp; READING AND WRITING-I read\u00a0The Little Gingerbread Man \u00a0and\u00a0The Gingerbread Girl. \u00a0We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}