This week we really got to dive into our reading rotations! WOW, was blown away by how well the class followed directions, worked together, helped each other, complete their work at each station and keep working the entire time! We rotated through teacher time, partner reading, reading to self and word work. We will be adding in computer time in the next two weeks.
Writing workshop
We are finalizing our first 2 units in writing, Personal Narrative/revising. This week we brainstormed ideas to write about for our end project for this unit. Then we planned using our beginning, middle and end planning hand. We had to continue the planning by only sketching out pictures of our story. Next week in the craziness of Halloween, we will start to write the words to our story and add details. We will go through the entire writing process for this end of the unit project!
Math workshop
We are almost to the end of unit 2. If our schedule that I have planned for next week is not interrupted we will be taking our end of the unit assessment Thursday and Friday. We have been working on change to more or change to less diagrams. We are using these diagrams to help organize the information in number stories. Today we also included number models or number sentences to help represent using symbols what is happening in the number story.
If you would like to order scholastic books, it is due today. I will wait to order books until Sunday. So if you would like to place an order online, please make sure you do this ASAP.
Haunted Garage is tonight from 6-9 pm TONIGHT!!!!
Thank you everyone for signing up and helping with the Halloween party!
Field trip will be in the afternoon the day after Halloween, November 1st. Thank you to the parents who volunteered to be drivers...we have just enough! Your child will need to bring a booster seat the day of the field trip. I will be sending home a note on Monday!