Announcements:
October 17th: Fairytale Ball: 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! An email was sent out earlier with details regarding this event. Unfortunately siblings will need to stay home due to limited space. So sorry!
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. I will offer these all throughout the week.
November 5th: Yearbook pics...dress your best! :) We take these at 8:30 in the morning thank goodness.
Thematic Centers:
We are still studying Cinderella and reading many different versions! I hope everyone can come into the classroom at some point and see all of this beautiful artwork displayed. We have not been sending things home lately because we need to decorate our classroom! We are also saving items for portfolios and conferences.
The 4 centers were:
1. Create a menu for the ball! Include an appetizer, main course and dessert. This was hilarious! :0 My favorite menu was: dough for an appetizer, pizza for dinner and a cookie cake for dessert. Yum!
2. Decorate an invitation for the fairytale ball and give it to your parents.
3. Create Cinderella's castle using attribute blocks. Trace the shapes and come up with a castle!
4. Make Cinderella's necklace using a pattern of your choice! Then write what your pattern is using green line paper.
Reader's Workshop:
We have finally introduced all 5 stations for reader's workshop and we are good to go! Everyone really enjoyed learning about the listening center. This week we are focussing on punctuation in our writing AGAIN! This is something that is so hard to remember in our writing. We are working on individual reading goals in reading groups as well. Reading goals look like this (they are different for every child) : working on stretching out the word and putting it back together, looking at non fiction features, taking a picture walk before reading and pointing out unfamiliar vocabulary, learning site words etc. Reading groups take place each day. After your child reads the book in their group, the book is sent home so that they can read it to you at home. Then it goes in their book box for a familiar re-read.
Math Workshop:
We have been saving each math "sheet" that we do for conferences. That's why we're not sending much home! But we also try to avoid doing worksheets. Our math tubs are all hands on! This week we are continuing to work on math story problems. Everyone is still struggling with how to "show their work." Every good mathematician has two strategies to solve each story problem. One can be in their head but the other needs to be shown physically so that they can always double check their answer. Strategies can be: counting on, using fingers, using manipulatives drawing a picture, grouping or skip counting to get an answer quicker, breaking apart numbers to the math is easier, using a ten frame to prove the answer, etc. Each day we have a math talk and discuss the MANY ways to solve a problem. The important thing here is that everyone can prove it! We also played double compare. This is very similar to the game we played a few weeks ago that I wrote about. This time instead of turning over one card, you turn over two cards and add them together. The person with the biggest sum, gets to keep both cards. Students who are really great at adding have cards that have more dots. Students who need a challenge have more dots so they are adding higher quantities. We continued to review "Fix It" and "5 in a Row". We also learned how to play roll and record a different way from last year. This year the kids are rolling dice and adding them together and then recording their answer.
Word study words this week are: a, an, the, good, last
**Do not forget to order scholastic if you would like! Orders are due by October 17th. Class code is: MG2XP
Enjoy the weekend!
Hugs,
Mrs. Schultz
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