Week in Review--Bats

Poem of the week!

 



Reading:

-Our sight words this week was the word “what” and “you”! 

-Please remember to practice your sight word flashcards each day as part of your homework. Students will be tested on the sight words again before the end of 2^nd quarter.

-We worked this week on the word family –at.  We generated words that belong in the –at family.  We talked about how the words in the family all rhyme.

-We also worked on blending parts of a word (onset/rhyme) together to help us get ready for word families.

-We talked about visualization and practiced finding parts of our read aloud that we could picture in our heads

 -The CAFÉ strategies we worked on this week were

“Making a mental image”

“Setting”

 

How can you help your child with the strategies at home?

1. Talk about places in your books where the author uses words to help the reader make a picture in their head.

2. Practice rhyming words.  Ask your child to produce a rhyming word for a word you give them.

3. Quiz your child to see if they can tell you what the words character, setting, author, and illustrator mean.

Writing:

-This week in writing we focused on adding details to our pictures.

- We also talked about publishing our work and chose a piece from our journals to hang up

-We talked about editing and looking for mistake in our writing. 

-We worked on capitalization and punctuation in writing.

-We reviewed setting and introduced a new writing activity that focuses on the setting

Math:

-In math this week we extended our knowledge of different ways to make the numbers 1 through 5 using number bonds and number bracelets

-We changed our number combinations into addition problems

-We introduced a new “Math by Myself” activity- sorting by shape (2D)

-We learned a new math game Number War that then went into “Math with Someone”  This game allows us to practice number recognition using numbers, numbers in word form, tally, marks, ten frames, and items in a set

-We practiced recognizing numbers 1-25 using flashcards each time we lined up to go to specials.

Content:

-This week we talked more about nocturnal animals, this week the subject was bats

-We reviewed sequencing with a story about a bat

-We made a KWL chart about bats-  What we KNOW, what we WANT TO KNOW, what we LEARNED

-We compared and contrasted bats and owls using a Venn diagram

-We made bats that had the facts we learned on each wing.













Other:

IPADS

-Our ipads continue to be a great tool for our Daily Café time!  A new app was introduced this week that allows students to practice writing letters and reviews letter sounds. Did you know students can work on the Raz Kids reading program at home?

PBIS
-We celebrated good behavior in grades K-5 for the past month with an hour of fun going through the Boot Camp Challenge obstacle course. The students who had 85% or higher good behavior for the past month were able to go to the celebration and had a blast climbing, jumping and racing!

Next week:

 

--In writing we will be working on how to make piece of writing easy to read:  handwriting and word spacing.

--In math, we will introduce ways to solve addition problems: flash cards, manipulatives, number lines.

--In reading, we will focus on responding to questions about stories and review sequencing.

--Our theme next week will be Pilgrims and Native Americans.

Week in Review--Owls!

Poem of the week!

 

 

Writing:

-This week in writing we focused on true stories by writing and illustrating 3 page books.

- We focused on a different part of the story for each page:  Who?  Where? What is happening?

-We continued to work on writing middle sounds in words when we added the writing to each page of our books.

Reading:

-Our sight words this week was the word “with” and “my”! 

-Please remember to practice your sight word flashcards each day as part of your homework. This week my was frequently confused with me.

-We continued our word work this week in class picking out the 2 words that rhyme.  We also practiced listening to see if two given words had same beginning sound or the same ending sound. 

-We also worked on blending parts of a word (onset/rhyme) together to help us get ready for word families.

-The CAFÉ strategies we worked on this week were

“Retell a story in order”

“Comparing and contrasting”

How can you help your child with the strategies at home?

1. Encourage your child to retell you a story including the characters—focus on the beginning, middle, and end

2. While reading together, talk about the characters.  How are they alike?  How are they different?  If there is only one character, compare and contrast that character to your child or a character from another book.

IPADS

-Our ipads are up and running!  The apps we used this week were Raz-Kids, QR readers, and ABC Magic.  These apps allowed use to read to self, listen to books on the ipad, and practice beginning letter sounds.  Despite on or two technical issues we had a successful week using our new technology.

Math:

-In math this week we talked about different ways to make the numbers 1 through 5 using “The Story of…”

-We manipulated chips into different combinations that equaled the number of the day.

-We “read” our examples like a sentence---

  3 and 2 make 5,  4 and 1 make 5, 0 and 5 make 5

-We reviewed 3D shapes and sorted pictures of real world items that are those shapes during morning meeting

-We practiced recognizing numbers 1-25 using flashcards each time we lined up to go to specials.

Content:

-This week we talked about nocturnal animals, specifically owls.

-We reviewed text features with a Weekly Reader about owls

-We labeled the body parts of an owl on a diagram.

-We made owl puppets that gave facts about owls using “Owls can…”  “Owls have…” and “Owls are…” sentence starters.

-We read several owl books this week.  Skills we focused on using those books were the character’s feelings, comparing and contrasting, and predicting.

October Homework Club!

 

Next week:

--In writing we will be working on adding detail to our pictures and choosing pieces to publish.  We will also star working on editing a piece of writing.

 

--In math, we will extend our knowledge different ways to make the number 1-5 using number bonds and addition number sentences.

 

--In reading, we will focus on making a mental picture in our head.  We will also start word families.

 

--Our theme next week will continue to be nocturnal animals, specifically bats.

 

 

Week in Review--Spiders & Halloween!

Poem of the week!

 

Reading:

-Our sight words this week was the word “come” and “me”! 

-Please remember that from this point forward your child will have two new sight words each week.  That means there will be two sight word pages for homework.  However, there will still only be sight word book.

-We did some word work this week in class that you can practice at home as well.  When given 3 words, we picked out the 2 that rhyme.  When given 2 words we listened to see if they had the same beginning sound or the same ending sound. 

 

-The CAFÉ strategies we worked on this week were

“Retell a story including the character”

“Analyze and evaluate a story character”

 

How can you help your child with the strategies at home?

1. Encourage your child to retell you a story including the characters—focus on the beginning, middle, and end

2. While reading together, stop and discuss the story character(s).  How are they feeling? Do they change throughout the story or stay the same?

Writing:

-This week in writing we labeled objects around the classroom to identify items we could write about in our journals

- We added the/a to those labels to help us when using those words in our writing (the flag, a chair, a computer)

-We continued to work on writing middle sounds in words by saying the words slowly like a turtle and stretching them out like a snake

-We received and practiced using a new writer’s checklist this week.  The checklist will help us remember to do all the steps of writing on each of our journal pages.

Math:

-In math this week we reviewed our 2D shapes and introduced 3D shapes.

-See if you can find some 3D shapes around your house: sphere, cube, cylinder, and cone

-We counted the flat faces of each 3D shape and the corners.  Then we sorted pictures by 3D shape and added them to our chart.

-We reviewed 2D shapes and then worked with a partner to sort by shape

-We constructed shape monsters on Halloween using 2D shapes to build our creatures.

Content:

-This week was all about Halloween and spiders. We talked about our prior knowledge of spiders using the words: are, can, and have to chart our ideas. 

-Then we confirmed the things we thought we knew by using a nonfiction spider book and facts from the internet. 

-We read several Halloween books this week.  Skills we focused on using those books were the character’s actions, the character’s feelings, sounds in stories, rhyming words, and predicting.

 

GRANDPARENTS’ DAY

-Our celebration was a huge success!  We had a great turn out for our special day.  Thank you to everyone who made time in the day to come be with us.  A special thank you to the parents who came and helped out run the stations and the parents who adopted a second kindergartener for the morning.

Next week:

--In writing, we will begin writing 3 page books that tell who, where, and what happened

--In math, we will begin to explore different ways to make the number 1-5 using addition with “The Story of…”

--In reading, we will focus comparing and contrasting characters in different books and two characters in the same book

--Our theme next week will be owls as we continue to explore and learn about nocturnal animals

--We will start using the iPads in class!!!