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October 17th: You will need a "costume" for this. Please do not worry! If you need help making anything or coming up with an idea I will gladly help. Any costume related to fairytales is great: prince, princess, fairy godmother, fairy, little red riding hood, a knight, etc. Get creative but do not make it too hard!
October 29th: Parade of Fiction- Dress like your favorite character from a book! Please come to me if you need help with a costume. :) Last year there were many cool costumers! I saw Fancy Nancy, Matilda, Amelia Bedelia, Junnie B. Jones and so many more.
October 30th & 31st: Parent Teacher Conferences *A sign up genius will be sent out later.
November 5th: Yearbook pics...dress your best! :) We take these at 8:30 in the morning thank goodness.
Thematic Unit:
This week we are studying Cinderella! We painted a glass slipper and wrote what we would ask for if we had a fairy godmother, we "transformed" a pumpkin into something new and wrote about it and we also decorated a real pumpkin like Cinderella's carriage (thanks for bringing in the pumpkins). It was so much fun! We read a Cinderella book each day and read many other versions like our other fairytales. Our main questions for this unit are:
1.What are the fairytale story elements?
2. How have fairytales lasted so long?
3. How can you compare and contrast the different versions of all the fairytales we have studied?
Math:
We learned a new game in math this week and we added it to our math tubs. The game is called "5 In a Row" and it is very similar to BINGO. You get a game board with many different numbers in a grid type of format. You roll two dice and then add the numbers. After that you find the sum on the game board and place a marker on that number to show you already rolled that sum. Your goal is to get 5 in a row on the game board. This works on addition, finding the total of two or more quantities up to a total, comparing two quantities and counting on/using number combinations.We also worked on addition story problems again in our math groups. It is so important that mathematicians are able to tell how they get their answer and justify their answer by showing their work/showing what addition strategies they used. Story problems are difficult to solve if you do not have a strategy for picking out the important parts of the problem. They are also difficult if you do not have any strategies for adding numbers. We are working on both pieces to solve story problems efficiently!
Reader's Workshop:
This week we introduced our second to last option. We learned how to do "word work." At this station there are different activities to complete related to word study. We work with many different materials to help us remember the word study words. We write our words in sand and shaving cream, we rainbow write words, use wiki sticks, stamp our letters, use chalk, write them on whiteboards and so much more. This is a fun station that we will be able to visit each time we have reader's workshop along with reading to self, writing, parter reading and listen to reading. We also met with our reading groups on worked on individual reading goals. Everyone is working on something different. We are reading fiction and non fiction. We also talked about punctuation in our writing (again). Punctuation is hard to remember but we are working hard. Everyone is still reading out of their individually designed book boxes, reading with partners and writing books, passages, letters, poems etc. during this time.
**If you see punctuation being left off of sentences at home it is ok to gently remind your child to add it to the end. It may be a period, exclamation mark or question mark!
**Do not forget to order scholastic if you would like! Orders are due by October 17th. Class code is: MG2XP
**Please remember tomorrow is sprit Friday. So wear your spartans apparel!
** We have a piggy bank in our class and we are collecting any spare change that you may have. CSD does this fundraiser every year and the money collected goes towards the Avon Breast Cancer Walk. Bring any spare change if you wish to donate it to our class piggy.
**Please bring in your parade of fiction book next week. We will be doing an activity with this with our book buddies! If you have not picked your book and character yet, go ahead and do that this weekend. If you cannot get your book to class by next Thursday, please let me know and I can make arrangements to choose one for your child for this activity.
SIgn up genius link: www.SignUpGenius.com/go/10C0C4FA5A82BA4FF2-october5
Have a happy weekend!
Hugs,
Mrs. Schultz
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