Week of November 17, 2014

We had Four Winds this week.  We learned all about erosion.  Thank you to our parent volunteers!

We love buddy reading!

Students have been working on creating their own maps this week.  The map could be of an imaginary or real place.  The map had to include a map key, title, and at least one label.

We started a new writing unit this week.  It is our informational writing unit.  Students are working on picking a topic they know a lot about.  They verbally plan their writing with a partner and then write down their ideas!  We are working on using teacher voices in our teaching books.

I hope everyone has a fun and restful vacation!

Week of November 10, 2014

We have been talking about maps along with our unit on community. We created a map of our classroom and students worked independently to map their bedrooms.  We added titles, labels, and map keys to our maps.  We have also been discussing why people would use certain maps.

We have started working on subtraction during math time.  Here are two examples of marvelous math work.

This student used crossing out to show her thinking.

This student used counting backwards to show her thinking.

During word study we have been working on words that have an -am or -an chunk.

The Beautiful Hopper

Firemen Visit!

The Underhill-Jericho Fire Department came to visit us on Friday.  They taught us about fire safety and their job in the community.

Week of November 3, 2014

We now have 4 things to check for in our story problems.  We have added labels to our marvelous math work.

There is a lot of new work up on our Marvelous Math Wall.

This student has all four pieces in their work.  This student used counting as their strategy to solve the problem.

This student used counting on as their strategy.

We have been playing a game called Dot Additon during math this week.

Each student picked their favorite small moment piece.  They have been working on revising, editing, and adding color to their pieces.

We read the book Miss Rumphius and discussed how she helped her community.  Then we came up with our own list of ways to help our community.

Our word wall words this week were all and to.

Week of October 27, 2014

Here we are reading with our stuffed animals and our crazy hair!

We started our first social studies unit on Monday.  We are learning about Communities.  We have talked about what a community is, types of communities, and people within those communities.  We drew pictures of community helpers.  If you think that you would like to come in and share about your job in the community, we would love to have you!

We brainstormed people within our school community.

We practiced rainbow writing our word walls.  We have 27 word wall words!