Everyday students have been practicing reading to themselves. We started by reading independently for only three minutes. We add one minute everyday, so that we can build up our stamina. Today we were able to stay quietly reading for 11 minutes. It was amazing!
Students have also been practicing reading to someone. This helps us to build up our reading fluency! Students pick their partners and then take turns reading to each other. If students do not know the words, they can tell their partner about the pictures. This EEKK poem helps us to remember how we sit with our partner and where the book should be placed. We started by reading for three minutes with a partner and we are now up to 7 minutes.
We have been doing a lot of scientific observations of our caterpillar. Students have three jobs to do in their science notebooks. They must draw a picture of what they see, write an "I see" sentence, and an "I think." sentence. The "I see" sentence describes what the student sees the caterpillar is doing and the "I think" sentence is a prediction of what it might look like the next day.
Every Thursday afternoon for a couple of weeks we are having "extra" guidance time, but instead of Mr. Lane teaching it is me! Our school has been practicing four ways to help us listen. The four ways are eyes watching, ears listening, voice quiet, and body still. We also have been practicing ways to help us focus. We have had two puppet friends, Snail and Puppy, come in to help us learn!
Our Word Wall words this week were
the and
of. We practiced spelling these words during morning meeting. We practiced spelling them by tapping them out on our arms and clapping them. We also wrote a sentence using both of the words. I hope everyone has a great weekend!
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