Please remember to send a water bottle with your child every day. We are out of water bottles and cups and many people are forgetting water bottles. If it is your turn to play the math game that is being sent home, please play it that evening and return it the next day. Please also make sure you are checking red folders every night. We are noticing many red folders are not being emptied and notes are not being read. This is one way we communicate each day and it is important. Thank you for your help with these things!
Thematic Centers:
We are still learning about Eleanor Roosevelt and feeling so inspired to give to others in her honor. This week we discussed how happy you feel after you have made someone else happy by doing something kind. We also learned that Eleanor Roosevelt loved hot dogs. She even invited the King and Queen over for a hot dog picnic when she was First Lady. We thought that was hilarious. We rotated through 4 centers:
1. Make your "no sew scarf" to give to the homeless shelter.
2. With your table, make a replica of the White House out of legos.
3. Write a letter to the new president telling him something or asking him a question. We will be mailing these next week! Maybe we will get a response! :) We learned that Eleanor and her husband were very responsive to letters and visits with the public.
4. With your song lyrics book, listen to the words of the Eleanor Roosevelt song (that we will be singing in our next play) and try to learn the words. Then, highlight all of the sight words in the book. Take it home and review the words with your family!
Math:
We are still studying geometry. We went on a shape hunt around the school and in our classroom. We also played geometry battle ship. Player 1 makes a shape out of a rubber band on their geo board ( a plastic board with pegs). Player 2 has to mimic that same shape in the same exact spot on their board. And then player 2 gets a turn.
Reader's Workshop:
This week we met with all reading groups, worked on sight words, word study words and even started word sorts. An example of a word sort is in the video below. This was a new thing this week. We are gluing these in our day books. This student was sorting pictures by their beginning sounds. Each student will be working on a word sort that is needed for their individual reading/writing goals. This week we all did the same word sort for practice. Next week kids will be grouped based on their needs. Students might sort words according to long and short vowels, ending sounds, certain spelling patterns that they get mixed up on etc. Excuse the background noise, we were starting to clean up but I wanted to take this short video because Ella was doing such a nice job saying each word out loud as she sorted.
Writer's Workshop:
This week we are still studying comics. We focused on making speech bubbles in multiple different ways.
Have a wonderful long weekend!
Mrs. Schultz
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