Week of October 8th, 2012

We have been working on some fall crafts in our classroom.  We created fall trees after we read the book Fletcher and the Falling Leaves.  We read the book Leaf Man and have collected our own pile of leaves, so that we can create our own leaf art.

Nurse Amy came in and talked to the class about germs.  She will be in next week to share about dental hygiene!

When we have finished out writing time, one or two students sit in the the author's chair.  The student in the author chair reads the story to the class, and the class gives out "grows" and "glows."  Grows are things you could add to your story, and glows are great things that you did in your story.

Once a week Mr. Bouchard has been coming in and teaching us about different math apps on the ipads.  We now have five different apps on our Math App Menu.  This week during centers, students had time to explore the apps either on their own or with a partner.  The second math center was Head and Tails which is a game from Investigations Math Program.  This game helped with identifying the penny, counting skills, and addition skills.  The last game was called In The Doghouse.  This game helped with counting and addition skills.

We had our second week of our listening center and reading groups.  Either on Monday or Friday students participate in the listening center.  Students are able to listen to books on the ipad, laptop, or desktop computers.  Sometimes students work alone and sometimes they work with a partner.  If students are not at the listening center they are reading to themselves or to a buddy.  Reading groups happen on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays.

Our Word Wall words this week were for, was, and he.