Thursday, December 19, 2013
2013 Happy Holidays!
Saturday, December 14, 2013
Learning about listening and Gingerbread Glistening
We had a visitor this week! Mrs. Goldstein, our school psychologist, came in to teach us about whole body listening.
She taught us that we do our best learning when we are using our whole body. Ask your child which parts of their body are on a which are off when they are demonstrating whole body listening. Hint: green is on and red is off.
Writer's Workshop
We are learning more and more of the author's craft! This week we focused on bringing our stories to life by unfreezing our characters. We do this by making our characters move and talk.
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| We also learned about speech bubbles and quotation marks |
Literature Connection
Over the next few weeks we will be reading a variety of Gingerbread stories. As we read them we are comparing story elements including character traits, setting, and endings.
During our art center we made our own gingerbread person by following directions on a glyph. During work on writing time each child chose a gingerbread person ( other than themselves) and wrote what they learned about that person from their gingerbread glyph. It was a great learning experience!
In January we will be collaborating with Mrs. Groden and creating our own gingerbread adventure, which we will then share with another class somewhere in the U.S! It's called The Global Gingerbread Family Collaborative. Stay tuned for more info on this in early 2014!
Poems
Mystery Reader!
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| A cute take on a little girl just looking for something to do with a host of friendly neighbors |
Sharing!
Raz kids
This a fantastic home/school reading connection. If you have not already registered please use the link below to do so. Your child will be able to visit a personalized virtual book room with books that are at their personal reading level. They will get to listen to, read, record reading, and take comprehension quizzes using books that are at their independent level. Most of the time they will be able to choose freely from the book room, but at times they will have an assignment from me. Be sure to check the "messages" and happy reading!!
Friday, December 6, 2013
Survey Says
DECEMBER!! Can you believe we have been in school for 60+ days? How did that happen?? Well, there's certainly no slowing down this month. We kicked off December in high gear. Here's what we've been up to this week...
Writer's Workshop
We did something very special this week! We celebrated our growth as writers by having a "Writer's Museum." Each child chose one piece of writing they were particularly proud of and put it on display.
Then, we walked around reading each other stories. It's one thing when your teacher compliments your story, it's another thing all together though when your peers do!
Sharing!
Working with Words
This week we are continuing to work with h-pals (ch, sh, th, wh) and also learning about short e and short e spelling patterns.
This week we are continuing to work with h-pals (ch, sh, th, wh) and also learning about short e and short e spelling patterns.
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| Building -ed pattern and -ent pattern words with magnet letters |
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| Stamping h-pal words |
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| Playing h-pal lotto |
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| Reading words with h-pals |
Writer's Workshop
We did something very special this week! We celebrated our growth as writers by having a "Writer's Museum." Each child chose one piece of writing they were particularly proud of and put it on display.
Then, we walked around reading each other stories. It's one thing when your teacher compliments your story, it's another thing all together though when your peers do!
Math
This week we are learning how to collect data on survey questions, represent data in various ways, and then discuss our findings. We even created our own survey questions to ask our classmates.
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| Some of the survey questions asked included would you rather be a horse or a tiger.... |
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| Are you 6 or 7..... |
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| Would you rather eat cheese pizza or pepperoni pizza? |
Sharing!
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| Our resident astronomer taught us all about planets, space stations and black holes! |
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| We also learned about Daisy meetings and costume making! |
Mystery Readers!
This week was holiday themed....
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| A silly story by a local author about a retired Santa |
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| And a holiday classic about the first gift of Christmas |
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