Valentine's Day

We have had a great week in room 222. In math, we have been busy learning how to recognize each coin, state the name, and the value. We ended the week playing games to help us practice this skill! Continue to practice at home so all our students can earn the GREEN ribbon!

In Reader's Workshop we have been been reading some fun Valentine books. After reading the story, the students have been responsible for identifying the characters, setting, problem and solution. The students have also been identifying the story elements in the books they are reading independently.

We had a wonderful time making a book with all our Valentines. We also had a blast at our Valentine party! Thank you to all the parents who donated items for our party and to Mrs. Ortiz for leading the activities! Enjoy the pictures below from our party!

Schedule for next week:
Monday-No School (President's Day)
Tuesday- D day
Wednesday-A day
Thursday-B day
Friday-C day

Student-Led Conferences

We have had a busy week preparing for student-led conferences on Thursday! The students were so excited to show YOU how smart they are! We identified personal strengths and personal weaknesses. The students are eager PRACTICE so their weaknesses can become strengths! Enjoy the pictures below of us practicing and preparing for our conference with our third grade buddies! Thank you for attending this event! Our students are so proud of their hard work!

We have also been busy learners this week! In math we have been learning how to identify the coins and the value of each coin! Please practice this skill at home! The students are eager to master this skill and earn a GREEN ribbon.

In writer's workshop, we have been learning how to write a "How To" book. We brainstormed a list of topics that we are "experts" at. Then, the students began writing books to "teach" someone!

In reader's workshop, we have been learning about verbs! We learned that "ing" means that the action is happening right now and that "ed" means the action already happened. We practiced "breaking the words into parts" to sound out words with these endings!

Specials Schedule for Next Week:
Monday: C day
Tuesday: D day
Wednesday: A day
Thursday:B day
Friday: C day

Winter Fun

We have been so busy this week developing our reading, writing, and math skills. It is amazing how fast these kids are progressing.  Lately, I am loving uncovering their strengths. In reader's workshop we have been working on "thinking" while we are reading.  The students are being asked to identify story elements and write about them after reading fiction books and write facts they learned after reading nonfiction books.  We are continuing to practice retelling stories remembering important events.  The class is starting to love "reading" time and are getting really excited about being "readers!"

 

In writer's workshop we continue to work on using good word choice in our stories.  The students are also focusing on writing stories with a beginning, three middles, and an end.  We call these stories "five-finger" stories and use our fingers to help us self-evaluate our work.  We read "The Jacket I Wear in the Snow".  Then, we created our own book about the jackets that we wear in the snow!  The students were SO involved with this project and I was incredibly impressed with our writing.  Today we invited all the Kindergarten students to our classroom.  We put our jackets on our chairs and lined them up in the back of the classroom.  I read our students' stories and the Kindergartners had to "guess" which jacket the author was describing!  Our students were very proud authors and it was fun for the other students to use our details to guess the jacket! Your child's story is coming home today!  Ask you child to share his/her story with you!

We got to email in the computer lab for the first time this week.  I hope you enjoyed recieving your child's message!  Emailing is such a fun way for our students to highlight their writing skills!  Don't forget to email back!

Schedule for next week:
Monday-B Day
Tuesday-C Day
Wednesday-D Day
Thursday-A Day
Friday B Day