Wow!
I was glad to see everyone back after the holidays ready to learn. Thank you to all the parents for all your wonderful gifts. You made my holiday very special.
What a great week we had coming back from the holidays. The kids worked really hard.
In Writing Workshop we are "Writing for the Reader" we have talked about stretching out our words to hear all the sounds. Each child also received a "space man" to help them remember to use spaces in between the words. We continue to work on taking a big idea and writing about a small moment from our idea. We have also been working really hard on writing words "in a snap". Our high frequency words are the words we want to write "in a snap". These words we call our "power words" because we want to read and write them quickly. As writers, we are working our hardest to write as much as we can. Writing clearly is our focus this unit so the reader is able to read our "words".
In Reading Workshop we are studying the process of retelling. We have been working on thinking about our reading and ways to help us remember what our stories are about. We talked about the "characteristics of good retelling". We learned that when we retell a story we want to remember to include the characters names, tell where the story is taking place (setting), and to include the most important parts of the story (beginning-middle-end). We will be working on discussing ways that will help us choose the important parts of the story.
In Math Workshop we are joining sets. We learned how to act out stories to tell how many in all. We learned the plus sign to represent joining groups when recording addition. We identified the equal sign to complete the number sentence for the word "is". We will continue to work on addition:joining sets.
In Shared Reading we enjoyed the poem The Snowball and Get Out!. This week our high frequency words were do, have, it, you. So far we have learned the H.F.W.'s am, are, and, can, I, in, is, look, like, my, on, out, said, see, the, we, were, was, going. The phonograms that we are working on are /00/ and /ch/.
In Phonological Awareness we introduced word families (-at), blending word parts, and omitting beginning/ending sounds of words. We will continue to work on some of this next week and throughout the year as needed.
We have been busy bees:)
Have a great weekend.
