Spelling and a New Addition Strategy

Important Dates:

November 21 - Parent/Teacher Conferences
November 21-25 No School
December 14 - early dismissal
December 15 -  Winter concert

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:

Go to gonoodle.com/class-code and enter this code: GZDMNF 

Literacy:

We are building our tool box of good habits we can use when we are stuck on a word. This we worked on looking at the picture, thinking about the sounds in the word, and checking to see if it makes sense. The readers are doing such a great job  with this!

We also love our word study time. Fundations is the curriculum we are using and the class is doing great with it! We have learned to tap out the sounds of a word and then write each sound that we hear. During word study time, we get to use magnetic letter tiles which makes spelling fun! 



Math:
At parent/teacher conferences I will be showing you all the math we are doing. You will be amazed! This week we worked on the find 10 strategy. This means if you have and equation such as 8+7=N you look for a way to make ten because it is so much easier to add a number to 10.

In this equation, you would start with the 8 and add 2 to it (to make 10). That leaves 5 from the 7. (8+2+5). 10 + 5 is easy! It's 15! The purpose of learning this is to give the mathematicians another strategy to use and help them become more flexible and fluid with numbers.