We enjoyed our writing celebration today!
For our writing celebration we choose our favorite easy to read story and made it even easier to read. The wring celebration is to celebrate all the work we have done and all the things we have learned over the past few weeks.
For our writing celebration we choose our favorite easy to read story and made it even easier to read. The wring celebration is to celebrate all the work we have done and all the things we have learned over the past few weeks.
Your child is coming home with their "celebration" book from this six weeks and from the 1st and 2nd six weeks of school. They were so excited and wanted to share with you how much they are writing now and what awesome writers they have become! Please send all three books back to school on Tuesday.
Enjoy!
Enjoy!
In Writing Workshop this week we continued to work on a lot of ways to make our writing easier to read. We continued to work on stretching out our words, leaving spaces between words, and spelling many of our word wall words correctly. We have been working on not only writing for the reader, but also writing faster and more. We began using punctuation to break our thinking into easier to understand parts.
In Reading Workshop this week we discussed how to include the important parts of the story when we retell. We retold the important parts by putting the important parts in order. We used "time words" such as "first, next, then, after that, suddenly, finally, and in the end. We told our stories with expression just like when we are reading with fluency and expression to make it more fun to listen to. We talked about when we get stuck retelling a story we can "check back with the book" to find the part in the book that we couldn't remember. We have been working hard on all of the characteristics of good retelling: use the characters names, talk about the setting, include the most important parts, tell the story in order, use time words, use expression, and check back with your book.
In Math Workshop this week we participated in the middle of the year Math benchmark. We also continued to review concept previously taught. (Joining:making sets and Separating).
Shared Reading we learned the poems Chubby Little Snowman and You are my Snowman. We focused on finding words that used the digraphs (ch,th,sh,wh). The phonograms for the week were (ng/ea). We reviewed our previously taught HFW's. Introduced the word family (-ot), and blending words parts.
I will send home the result from the benchmark when the report card goes home.
Please visit the picture gallery. I have more pictures to add. Some of these were from today.
Have a wonderful long weekend!!
Shared Reading we learned the poems Chubby Little Snowman and You are my Snowman. We focused on finding words that used the digraphs (ch,th,sh,wh). The phonograms for the week were (ng/ea). We reviewed our previously taught HFW's. Introduced the word family (-ot), and blending words parts.
I will send home the result from the benchmark when the report card goes home.
Please visit the picture gallery. I have more pictures to add. Some of these were from today.
Have a wonderful long weekend!!
