Week of October 29th, 2012

Happy November!  We continue to work on our Daily Five choices.  These students are practicing Writing, Word Work, and Reading to Self.  This week for Word Work students are working on bonus letter words. These are words that have 2 of the same letter at the end.  For example, yell, miss, cuff, and buzz.

 During Word Study this week, we read a quick story called The Big Mess.  Students read it independently and then we read it fluently as group on the BrightLink.  We had to become detectives and search for certain things in the story.  We marked up uppercase letters, punctuation marks, quotation marks, digraphs, and bonus letter words.

Math Centers

 Our first center was on the Ipads.  Mr. Bouchard taught us how to use a new app called Geoboards.  This helped us practice our shapes.  Geoboards is a free app, if you happen to have an Ipad at your house. 

Our second center was on the BrightLink.  Students played two different games.  The first was called 100 Number Grid.  Students have to find certain numbers on a blank 100's chart.  This helps student become familiar with how to use a 100's chart and it helps with identifying numbers to 100.  The second game was called Penguin Party Addition.  This helps students become faster with their addition math facts that use numbers 1-9.

Our last center was starring me, Ms. Henault.  Students showed me how they could compose a hexagon using different pattern blocks.  They also chose different shapes to fill and built some of their own shapes.  Students then had to count the number of blocks they used to build.

Our Word Wall words this week were she, we, and all.  These are some sentences we wrote during morning meeting with these words.  Our Word Wall Specialist did a great job writing the Word Wall words in the sentences.