Reading Workshop
We have been very busy visualizing while we are listening to stories. This is something that everyone does all the time, but we don't pay much attention to it unless we are thinking about it. I have been reading aloud poems and different stories without showing any of the pictures. The students are closing their eyes to have the least amount of distractions as possible. I then ask them to draw the movie or picture that was created in their while I was reading out loud. There is no right or wrong picture because everyone's picture will be different based on their schema! Schema is our back ground knowledge that we already have based on our own experiences and things that we already know. We have done some partner work with visualizing that helps students understand how our schema is the same, but also different.
Writing workshop
We have been busy at work with a mother's day project and our Grosse Pointe Writing. We will continue more of our workshop after this week.
Math Workshop
We have been busy keeping up with math. We are really practicing a few concepts in unit 9, place value, fraction work, and measurement. Unit 9 is our last "real" unit. Unit 10 is a review unit of all the ideas that we covered on this year in first grade.
BOX TOPS!!!
I just learned some really important information about box tops today!
We have been very busy visualizing while we are listening to stories. This is something that everyone does all the time, but we don't pay much attention to it unless we are thinking about it. I have been reading aloud poems and different stories without showing any of the pictures. The students are closing their eyes to have the least amount of distractions as possible. I then ask them to draw the movie or picture that was created in their while I was reading out loud. There is no right or wrong picture because everyone's picture will be different based on their schema! Schema is our back ground knowledge that we already have based on our own experiences and things that we already know. We have done some partner work with visualizing that helps students understand how our schema is the same, but also different.
Writing workshop
We have been busy at work with a mother's day project and our Grosse Pointe Writing. We will continue more of our workshop after this week.
Math Workshop
We have been busy keeping up with math. We are really practicing a few concepts in unit 9, place value, fraction work, and measurement. Unit 9 is our last "real" unit. Unit 10 is a review unit of all the ideas that we covered on this year in first grade.
BOX TOPS!!!
I just learned some really important information about box tops today!
- The need to be cut out perfectly!
- The expiration date needs to be visible or it can't be used.
- Any bonus points may not be glued to the box top papers.
- If you are collecting box tops in baggies, please only put 50 per baggy.