We are busy assessing and getting ready for report cards and conferences in room 134. The conference sign up has been sent out. If we did not meet last time, I would really like to meet this time. Thank you!
Please continue to practice the play lines. We want everyone to feel comfortable saying their lines. :)
Thematic Centers:
This week (and continuing through Monday) we will be studying Helen Keller. What a marvelous hero! We learned that she was blind and deaf. We spent time thinking about how hard this would be and we could not imagine. We read many non fiction books about Helen and rotated through 4 centers:
1. Walk around the school blind folded with a teacher and experience what it would be like to navigate the world blind.
2. Take a cracker and spread icing on it and use skittles to spell the letters of your name like they would be spelled in braille.
3. Make and read a book about Helen Keller.
4. Spell your name like it would be spelled in braille using glue dots (then let it dry and experience braille).
Math Workshop:
We are working on our subtraction skills but taking it a step further. We have been working on coming up with different ways to get a number by using subtraction and addition. We have also been working on fact families just a tiny bit as we work on representing numbers different ways.
Example for the number 10: 10-6=4, 10-4=6, 6+4=10, 4+6=10, 10 tally marks, 10 on the number line etc. Our range cards from last year really helped with this!
This week we addressed these standards:
-generating equivalent expressions for a number
-using numbers and standard notation
-connecting numbers and standard notation to the quantities and actions they represent.
We have the same math tubs as last week. Many tubs are review as we pull teacher tables to learn new math concepts. Next week the tubs will change.
Reader's Workshop:
This week we are working on comprehension and retelling again. We reviewed our comprehension beanie baby strategies and we also worked on retelling those stories using writing. Like a summary on the back of the book, short retells of stories can help us decide if we want to read the story or not. To help us retell the story, we straightened out our left arm. With our right hand we patted the top of our arm and told the beginning of the story, patted the middle of our arm and told the middle of the story and patted the bottom of our arm and told the end of the story. Since summarizing is difficult it helped. We also talked about the main idea versus details of the story. As we are comprehending we need to pay attention to both!
We are back with word study, leveled books and word sorts this week. Words this week are:
thick, look, see, may, this, your, bad, love, short and wave. We practiced these words using carnation heart letters and then got to eat them!
Keep working on those valentines! If you can send in a shoe box or cereal box like you did last year to put valentines in that would be great! We will cut a hole and cover it to decorate it here at school. We are also learning this fun song for Valentine's Day! See below and have your child teach this song to you.
Have a great week!
Mrs. Schultz
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