We had a very busy third week of school. The class is really starting to get into a routine and we are working really well together. I am so proud of them! What a great group! I hope you are enjoying this beautiful weekend.
Week 3 Highlights:
- · Short a sound activities
- · Monday – Journal writing – one thing I did this weekend was…
- · Monday – Friday: Small moment writing – started editing – will work more on this during week 4 as well as revising
- · Building stamina for “Read to Self” using leveled texts from our book boxes – Goal: 12 – 15 minutes
- · Started “Read to Someone” using our poetry notebooks
- · Capital and lower case letters – work on this at home as well – especially our names
- · Kevin Henkes author study – using his books as mentor texts
- · Making predictions as we read – story retell – characters, setting and story events
- · Math – finished unit 1 on addition – started unit 2 subtraction – focus on missing addends-
- Math - watched Youtube video - Harry Kindergarten's Song: When You Subtract Like a Pirate :) Great song for key vocabulary.
- · Started Handwriting Without Tears program
- · Social Studies – Community Workers