We've had a wonderful week together! A highlight of our meetings was "the shoe greeting" during morning meeting and "pop see ko" during closing circle. These times in our day are important for community building and social learning.
We finalized our class rules and illustrated them for our classroom display. We showed them to Principal Sara on Friday. We also read her our Hopes and Dreams for the year!
This week we read two books with the focus on friendship, belonging, and standing up for your friends if someone is being mean. We read One by Kathryn Otoshi many times--we read it, watched the author read it on youtube, and used props to help us retell the story. We also read Big Al by Andrew Clements. We brainstormed ways to include others, get along, and stand up for yourself and others and used these as our themes during writer's workshop. On Thursday and Friday we made amazing response to literature pieces based on One showing many ways that everyone can get along and belong.
In math we continue looking closely at representations and what they tell us. We made up story problems that would match the solutions. We also introduced adding on the numberline with a fun activity, "Froggy on the Numberline." Froggy makes small hops from number to number. Then we group the small hops into a big jump. These jumps show the addends (the numbers being added). Then Froggy "dives the whole distance" traveled on the number line. This shows the sum (the whole amount of the addends combined).
We've been practicing good reading habits during Readers Workshop and taking time to Read to Myself, Read to Someone, and Meet with a Teacher. Throughout the year students will be engaging in reading in all of these contexts. Right now we're practicing what it looks like, sounds like, and feels like to do this work. We've been making new goals each day for how long we can make it--increasing our stamina each day. By the end of the week students could read silently/whisper read to themselves for 10 minutes and they could partner read for 15 minutes!
We began to do some work with letters and sounds. We colored in a mixed up alphabet and had to cut and paste them in the correct order.
Please send in any library books on Monday so your child can choose new books to take home!
Dates to Remember:
Monday October 9 - Library 11-11:30
Wednesday October 11 - Walk to School Day!
Wednesday October 18 - Early Release for ALL students 12:15 -- No After School Activities
Thursday October 19 - No School
Friday October 20 - No School
Monday October 23 - Library 11-11:30
Monday October 23 - Picture Retakes
Have a great weekend!
❤ Mrs. Fox
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