Important Dates:
Wednesday - Library
October 31 - Ammi Joan Paquette, author visit
November 9 - Early Release Day
November 21 - Parent/Teacher Conferences
Go Noodle:
Go Noodle is a website we use in the classroom for our movement breaks. I sent home info about kids creating their own Go Noodle Champs at home and then we can connect those champs with our school account! In case you missed it, here is what to do:
Literacy:
Our Readers' and Writers' Workshops are in full swing! Each afternoon, I do a minilesson, focusing on a strategy that the readers will be working on during their independent reading. This week, we worked on rereading to smooth out our voices and scooping up words into phrases as we read.
After our minilesson, the students go off and read independently using books at their just right level. Then, later during the workshop, they work with their reading buddy and read even more books! Hooray for reading! During independent and partner time, I work with students in small groups and independently to support them and help them grow as readers.
We read one of my favorite books this week, Big Pumpkin, by Erica Silverman. We love singing the song!
The children made retelling booklets of this story this week and brought them home. They were all excited to share their retellings with you!
Math:
We started our new math unit! This unit builds on everything we learned in the first math unit. We started off with combination problems, a type of story problem we spent a lot of time on in the first unit.
This time, we are also looking at how mathematicians use patterns to help solve story problems and equations. The children discovered that if we know the total sum (10) then we can use a counting forward and backward strategy to find combinations that solve for that number. This photo shows one student talking about the pattern she notices in another student's work. Wow! Great work mathematicians!
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