During our Writer’s workshop we chose one piece to revise and published this piece at our Writer’s Celebration. The writers from Miss. Mulqueen’s class joined us Thursday morning to share our stories. Today your children have brought home several small paper books. We cleaned out our book boxes and these little books are just too easy! This week during Reader’s workshop we learned that readers have a few more super powers to help them to read books. Snap Word power is the power to read some words so quickly that we barely even notice them. So far the snap words that we have practiced are I, a, the, and, my, we, like, is, it, and to. That list will grow to include words such as said, can, and here. Another super power is Sound power. Readers use their sound power when they come to a tricky word and say each sound until the figure out what makes sense. And finally we learned that Super Readers don’t give up. They use their Persistence power to keep trying until they solve the tricky word. Everyone got one or two new just-right books and at centers we worked on activities to help us identify the sounds that letters make. On Friday we read with our first grade Reading Buddies. During our Math block we played Roll and Record with two dot dice, practiced finding combinations of ten, played a game called Bears on the Bus and practiced naming and drawing shapes as we went on a shape walk around our school. We continue to practice counting by ones and tens all the way to 100. We continued our study of Mexico this week. We learned that Mexico has deserts and in those deserts lives the giant Sarago cactus and in that cactus lives an elf owl. We also learned about and made cut paper banners and paper lanterns. Our classroom is looking very festive!
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Pajama day was a success!! It was fun to work today with our stuffies and in our comfy clothes. As a class we decided that we like earning marbles for following the group plan and showing expected behavior. so we voted and we’ll be working to earn a fun movie as an afternoon treat. This week we began our study of Mexico. After packing our suitcase and signing our passports, we boarded the plane and (using Google Earth) flew to Mexico. We used Google street view to check out some of the sights in the city, the desert and the rainforest and we took a ride on a couple of busses (using YouTube) in and around the country. During our Writer’s workshop we learned that writers are careful to tell or show how the people in their stories are feeling and they will often end their stories by writing how the people in are feeling. We had time to work on our stories and we used a checklist to make sure our stories are the best they can be. During Reader’s workshop everyone got a new just-right book and we learned that we can use Picture Power to help read tricky words. During our centers we identified beginning sounds, practiced writing winter words, matched names to pictures and built those names. We listened to The Big Snow at the listening center and practiced reading and writing our spelling words. During our Math block we compared the weight of several things using a pan balance and the capacity of several containers. We looked closely at a 100’s grid. We noticed that numbers go past 100 (!), that our growing number grid is smaller than 100, we looked at numbers that come before some numbers and we circled that numbers that you say when you count by 10’s.
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