Week of September 24th, 2012

The class worked very hard this week.  Here is a little bit of what we did!

 

When students bring in their Reading Log Sheets, and they have read at least ten minutes four times a week, they may put a marble in the jar.  When our jar is full, we are going to get a new book for our classroom library.  Students did a great job this week bringing in their Reading Logs.  Remember they come home on Friday and need to come back the following Thursday!

You will notice on the Reading Log that there is a sticker.  This sticker helps me remember how much students read the week before.  I noticed a lot of students going above and beyond the goal.  That is awesome!

 

When students come into the classroom in the morning, they have a "Morning Work" job.  Right now their morning work job is to complete a sheet about the number of the day.  This helps student to identify numbers, write numbers, understand even and odd, and practice basic adding and subtracting. 

 

We continue to work on our math centers at the end of math.  This week on the BrightLink Center we played  Funky Mummy Addition and Skip Counting By 2's and 10's .  The other two centers were Five In A Row (From The Investigations Math Program) and Egg Head.  Both of the games help practice counting, adding, and identifying numbers.  It is also a great time for students to work on being a good partner.

We kicked off our Writer's Workshop on Monday.  Students are working on writing small moments.  These are true stories about their lives.  I have been very impressed with our Writing Workshop time.  Students are focused and coming up with great ideas!  When we are writing small moments we think of an idea, picture it in our minds, draw the pictures, and write the words to match our pictures.  Students have green writing folders.  When they have a piece in progress it goes on the blue dot side, and when it is finished it goes on the red dot side.

Our Word Wall words this week were "in" and "is".  As a class we came up with these two sentences and our Word Wall Specialist this week got to write them in the sentence.  We are really working on writing in lower case letters!

You may have noticed that on our blog we have our very own book shelf with four of our read aloud books on it.  Every month we will change the books on our bookshelf.  We read The Kissing Hand and A Chair For My Mother during writing time as good examples of small moment writing.  We read the nonfiction book Monarch Butterflies during science, and we acted out the butterfly life cycle.  The book I Need My Monster was chosen by the class as the book the students wanted to share with their families.  Have a great weekend!