Halloween Pictures!!!!

October 31-November 4th

After a very fun and exciting day, we are all looking forward to a fun Halloween weekend!

For next week, we will be switching to a new reading strategy: Who and What? This helps us to identify the main character in a story and tell what happens to them. We will be reading several stories and continue to complete our daily comprehension activities, too.

In math, we are also continuing to work on single and double digit addition with and without number lines.

The Social Studies state projects went out earlier this week and the students have been coming in each day to show us their progress! It is great to see such excitement learning about the United States. We will cover more details about the United States and will end the week discussing the land forms.

Finally, our Reader's Theater play for next week is "The Three Billy Goats Gruff."

I will be posting Halloween pictures soon!

Have a safe and fun Halloween weekend!

Reader's Theater 10/21

On Friday, we performed our Reader's Theater play of the week, Big Mose. This story told us about the life of hero New York firefighter Mose Humphrey. The students did an excellent job both reading and acting out their characters, while having fun, too!!!

October 24th-28th

I hope that everyone had a great week despite the chilly and rainy weather we had!

We had a great end to our week watching Diary of a Wimpy Kid to follow up on our read aloud. I will be posting pictures of the performance this weekend.

Our target reading strategy of the week will be Finding the Main Idea. We will be using several stories (both fiction and nonfiction) to develop this and the students will have homework each night, as well, to further practice locating the main idea in stories.

In math, we are continuing to work on addition and subtraction word problems, focusing on locating the "key" words that tell us the correct operation to use.

In Social Studies, we will be finishing up our Illinois unit and beginning our independent state projects.

Have a great weekend!!!

Picture Info

Just FYI...

*Picture packets should arrive tomorrow, October 18th.

*Picture retakes will be on Thursday, November 3rd!

October 17th-21st

I hope that everyone had a great week and enjoyed the wonderful weather that we had earlier this week!

Our reader's theater play next week will be "Big Mose," which is the story of a New York City firefighter who lived over 150 years ago. We will be needing a few props (firefighter hats, etc.), so we will be making a list after our first read-through on Monday.

In reading, our skill of the week is Making Predictions. Throughout the week we will be using several books, activities, and passages to practice making predictions and giving reasons/evidence to support our predictions.

In math, we will be practicing our addition and subtraction skills at a more difficult level. We will also spend most of the week recognizing key words that help us determine if a word problem is addition or subtraction.

In Social Studies, we have begun learning about the United States. Our initial focus will be on Illinois. At the end of the next week, students will be choosing a state to write a short report about independently. They will have one week to complete this. In class, we will be completing one of these same reports on Illinois together so the students will have a model to use for their own state reports. More information will be coming home later next week.

Have a great weekend!

Week of October 10-14th

With Columbus Day and a Teacher Institute starting off our next week, I'm sure that Wednesday-Friday will go by quickly!

In reading, we will be using our Readers' Theater play for the week, The Three Pigs, to practice checking for understanding and reading with fluency. On Thursday, we will read another version of this story, The True Story of the Three Little Pigs, which is told from the wolf's perspective. Using these two texts, we will practice using a Venn Diagram to compare and contrast them. On Friday, as a fun activity, we will view the video of The Three Little Pigs and compare/contrast them, too.

In math, we are moving along with money and practicing writing amounts of money in different forms (using words, the cents sign, and the dollar sign). We will also continue to add various amounts of change.

In Social Studies we will be starting our Presidental Unit and discuss presidental history, as well as the design and purpose of our government.

Please be sure to check your student's reading log every night to ensure that they are keeping up with their reading.

Have a great extended weekend!

October 3-7th

We have another busy week planned in Room 216!

*Reading: Our focus skill in reading this week is identifying and discussing reality vs. fantasy. We will read short passages each day and practice this skill. Our reading groups will be divided between learning/practicing word families and reading the story "Nights of the Pufflings" by Bruce McMillan.
*Math: In math, we are continuing to practice counting money. Later in the week, we will be adding quarters into our addition problems with pennies, dimes, and nickels.
*Readers Theater: The Readers' Theater play for the week is "The Little Red Hen." We did our first read through this morning and the students are all very excited about their new parts!
*Science/Social Studies: In Science, we are finishing up the body unit early this week and will begin a Presidential unit in Social Studies on Wednesday.

Dates to Remember:
-Monday, October 10th: Columbus Day, No School
-Tuesday, October 11th: Teacher Institute, No School

Have a great week!