Here's a glimpse into our week in the Fish classroom:
Visual Arts: The children have been busy making winter kids to decorate our bulletin board.
Readers' Workshop: We will be wrapping up Unit 2 "Super Powers" next week. Our readers are working on reading and thinking about what it says as they read. It is important that they understand what they are reading and go back to fix it if they don't. They learned about their book talk power this week. I modeled introducing a book and the children practiced it in partnerships. They also know that they can retell books after reading them. We will continue to practice and build upon these skills during our next unit, "Bigger Books, Bigger Reading Muscles."
Writers' Workshop: We are working on narratives again. The children are moving away from list books back to writing true stories about their lives. This week we focused on the importance of other people being able to read our writing. If we can't read what we wrote, how can someone else? The first thing the children decided was important was spacing between words. Ask you child about the new tool they added to their writing folders to help with remembering spaces.
Literacy: We spent some center time this week matching objects by beginning sound and reading small (CVC) words. We also are assessing spelling to re-work our word groups for the next part of our school year together.
Math Workshop: We are almost done Unit 4 in math. We will be working on end-of-unit assessments next week. Those will be coming home by Friday, 1/13. We will also be doing mid-year math assessments. Many of these results are reported to you on progress reports (which go home around the end of January/beginning of February.)
Books We Have Read: Gingerbread Friends , Ten on the Sled, The Mitten Tree, Bear Snores On
Up-Coming Events:
- Handwriting- v and w
- Word of the Week- to
- Phonics-ch
- No School- Monday, 1/16/17
Have a great weekend.
Kristen
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