Here's a glimpse into our week in the Fish classroom:
Visual Arts: Our Halloween projects are coming down from the walls. We are beginning to replace them with turkeys. We painted and decorated some turkeys and began to work on our Thanksgiving themed sun-catchers.
Readers' Workshop: This week was spent putting all of the Unit 1 reading work together to read storybooks. We are ready to begin Unit 2: Superpowers. Our focus will be on reading strategies (pointing to each word, using the picture to help, etc.).
Writers' Workshop: The children selected pieces to "publish" this week. They thought about the 'big idea' of their stories and made front covers. We edited/fancied up our pieces and plan to celebrate our hard work with our buddies next week by reading the stories to them. The children are feeling quite proud! We will turn our focus to writing like scientists next week.
Math Workshop: We worked on graphing this week. There was a lot of math vocabulary! The children learned row, column, most, & least/fewest. We also revisited shapes. We are describing attributes and comparing/contrasting circles, squares, rectangles and triangles. End of Unit 2 assessments will be sent home next Thursday.
Literacy: The children made a class book entitled Fish Class, Fish Class, What Do You See?
Up-Coming Events:
- Handwriting- X, Y and Z
- Word of the Week- I
- Phonics- m and n
- No School (Teacher Workshop)- 11/8
- No School- 11/11
- Family Breakfast- Tuesday, 11/22 from 8:00-8:25
- Thanksgiving Break- 11/23-11/25
Happy "Fall Back" Weekend
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Kristen
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