What a great first week we have had!! I am very excited about our upcoming year. We spent a lot of time working on routines and procedures. There was some learning happening too. Here is a synopsis of what we did this week...
>>In math we practiced "math houses or math towers." These are just finding partners for addends. (4+1 and 1+4) We also practiced counting up. (I have 5 now and need how many more to get to 9??? .. 6,7,8,9...4. 5+4=9)
You should see a classwork sheet that shows what we did and it will make more sense.
*First math assessment will be next week
>>In reading we started building stamina and seeing how long we can read to self. Our first run was 1.36 and second was 3.01 minutes. Great improvement. As our class practices reading to themselves, I would like to make sure they are focused on reading and thinking about what they read. We will be working daily at building stamina.
We also started talking about our CAFE strategies (comprehension, accuracy, fluency, and expanding vocabulary), but we only worked at making connections and predictions as we read.
>>In writing we did an unassisted writing piece so I can see where we all are. We also wrote a short "me I am" poem to be shown at open house, and started brainstorming ideas to write about at a later date.
>>In letterland/ word study, we reviewed our letter land characters/sounds and focused on short vowels. We did a lot of exploring and learning routines this week. There was no test, but you should have seen homework twice this week. There was a letter in your child's Friday folder about letterland. We will be spending more time this week practicing the letters/sounds and forming words.
**Please be sure that you are checking the daily folders and signing the links at the bottom. The total minutes read each day should also be recorded. I will check these daily and is a great way to communicate about our children.
We traded in our links today and most everyone was able to exchange them for a jewel. Monday we will all start out with 10 links again and work at keeping them all or earning more throughout the week. Those students who had more than 10 today will hold on to them until next week and if they earn 20 links all together can exchange them for 2 jewels. We will then go shopping at the end of the quarter with the jewels earned.
This has been working great so far and it's amazing to see how excited the class is over earning links each day.
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