I'm back from Hawaii! Man, it was beautiful. However, I did miss my kiddos here. Our amazing sub-Mrs. McQueen said our kiddos were awesome and she would sub for them any day!!! So that's a big compliment.
I wanted to thank all our grandparents who were able to make it out to Grandparents Day last week. I wish that I would have been here to met you all. So please give them a big thanks for me.
This week we are working on many things:
Reading: We will introduce our final Daily 5 center Work on Writing. If you have never heard of Daily 5 I totally recommend looking at it as an amazing tool to our Reading and Writing time. We will also work on Story Elements.
Writing: Main focus is working on complete sentences and 7up sentences
Social Studies: Making maps with keys/legends, 7 continents, and oceans
Math: Time to the nearest hour, half hour, and 5 minutes
Monday, September 25, 2017
Friday, September 15, 2017
Book Fair/Grandparent Day Week
I'm blogging a little early this time. I will not be here at all next week. I will be thinking on a sandy beach in Hawaii all next week. 😆😆 Even though I will be having a fantastic time I'm sure, I will miss my time here because I go crazy when I'm not with my MB kiddos.
So this week we are going to be working really hard with Mrs. Erin McQueen as my sub. She is beyond amazing and I know she will have a great time because I have an amazing class this year!!!
We will also have Grandparents Day on Thursday, September 21st. This year it is during the day from 8-11 am. Each grade level has a separate time for grandparents to come inside the classroom, 2nd grade is from 9:30-10:00. There will also be a scavenger hunt that you may take your grandchild on and a book fair you may buy books at any time that morning!! We do ask that our kiddos first come to class to get their lunch choice for the day. We wish grandparents could stay for lunch but there would be no way to fit all in our lunch room.
In Reading we will be learning 2 more of our Daily 5 centers; Listen to Reading and Word Work. We have built our stamina in Read to Self/Someone and it is the time where we believe they can handle to other 2. The following week we will be learning about Work on Writing, the last of the Daily 5 centers. Last week we worked really hard with short vowel words. This week we will work just as hard but with long vowel words.
In Writing, we will hopefully complete our Square Me project for our introduction of Narrative writing. On Grandparents Day we will be able to show off what we have been working on with this!
In Social Studies we enter our unit on Maps. We will be learning about compass roses, map keys, continents/oceans, and the Equador/Prime Meridian.
Finally, in Math, we will complete our Place Value unit. We will be working on Comparing numbers to 1,000, and then reviewing what we have learned. We will have our 1st Math Assessment on Friday, September 22.
So this week we are going to be working really hard with Mrs. Erin McQueen as my sub. She is beyond amazing and I know she will have a great time because I have an amazing class this year!!!
We will also have Grandparents Day on Thursday, September 21st. This year it is during the day from 8-11 am. Each grade level has a separate time for grandparents to come inside the classroom, 2nd grade is from 9:30-10:00. There will also be a scavenger hunt that you may take your grandchild on and a book fair you may buy books at any time that morning!! We do ask that our kiddos first come to class to get their lunch choice for the day. We wish grandparents could stay for lunch but there would be no way to fit all in our lunch room.
In Reading we will be learning 2 more of our Daily 5 centers; Listen to Reading and Word Work. We have built our stamina in Read to Self/Someone and it is the time where we believe they can handle to other 2. The following week we will be learning about Work on Writing, the last of the Daily 5 centers. Last week we worked really hard with short vowel words. This week we will work just as hard but with long vowel words.
In Writing, we will hopefully complete our Square Me project for our introduction of Narrative writing. On Grandparents Day we will be able to show off what we have been working on with this!
In Social Studies we enter our unit on Maps. We will be learning about compass roses, map keys, continents/oceans, and the Equador/Prime Meridian.
Finally, in Math, we will complete our Place Value unit. We will be working on Comparing numbers to 1,000, and then reviewing what we have learned. We will have our 1st Math Assessment on Friday, September 22.
Monday, September 11, 2017
An Actual Full Week!!!
Yeah! We actually get to get back into the swing of things with a full week of school. So we have tried to get as much learning into our full week that we can. I wanted to let everyone know that I will not be here at all next week. I will be taking some time off to go on a small trip to...Hawaii. I'm excited since I've never been. However, we will have an amazing sub, Mrs. Erin McQueen.
This week in Reading we will continue with our 2nd center Read to Someone. We learned how to be a Coach of Reading. We learned that to be a good coach, we must be encouragers for others since we want each of our classmates to succeed. If our partner is struggling with a word then we have learned to ask Do you need coaching or time? This is asking them do they just need a few more seconds to figure it out or do they need us to help with strategies we have learned? Now we continue that this week and add in a lot of Word Work with short vowels. We review all 5 short vowel sounds.
In Writing, we will begin our Narrative writing piece. We start off this unit with reading the story Square Cat (last week). Then we start to think of things that would be problematic and things that might be fun if one day we were to wake up and we were suddenly...square.
In Social Studies we complete our American symbols. Today we will be looking into a September 11th remembrance. It's crazy to think that the kiddos that are getting their licenses now were being born this year 16 years ago!! Then from here, we go into discussions of what we are really doing when we are saying The Pledge of Allegiance.
In Math, we will keep going forward with our Place Value unit. We will be learning how to Problem Solve with using Logical Reasoning(what we already know, background schema). We will work on reading and writing number words, counting by 5's, 10's, and 100's, and then comparing numbers to 1,000.
This week in Reading we will continue with our 2nd center Read to Someone. We learned how to be a Coach of Reading. We learned that to be a good coach, we must be encouragers for others since we want each of our classmates to succeed. If our partner is struggling with a word then we have learned to ask Do you need coaching or time? This is asking them do they just need a few more seconds to figure it out or do they need us to help with strategies we have learned? Now we continue that this week and add in a lot of Word Work with short vowels. We review all 5 short vowel sounds.
In Writing, we will begin our Narrative writing piece. We start off this unit with reading the story Square Cat (last week). Then we start to think of things that would be problematic and things that might be fun if one day we were to wake up and we were suddenly...square.
In Social Studies we complete our American symbols. Today we will be looking into a September 11th remembrance. It's crazy to think that the kiddos that are getting their licenses now were being born this year 16 years ago!! Then from here, we go into discussions of what we are really doing when we are saying The Pledge of Allegiance.
In Math, we will keep going forward with our Place Value unit. We will be learning how to Problem Solve with using Logical Reasoning(what we already know, background schema). We will work on reading and writing number words, counting by 5's, 10's, and 100's, and then comparing numbers to 1,000.
Tuesday, September 5, 2017
Read to Someone
This week we will be learning about our 2nd Daily 5 center, Read to Someone. It sounds simple right? However, there are different ways we can does this with a partner. We will be discussing how to be an effective partner and coach. The question we like to ask when we get stuck is Do you need time or coaching? Do they just need a few more seconds to figure out the word or help? Helping is not giving them the word, that's the last resort. Each student will learn ways to help a partner correctly. We will also continue to work on reading appropriate leveled books. They've been doing really great at this!!!
In Writing, we will talk about types of Narrative writing. We will then go into reading the book Square Cat. We will start to discuss things we could do better if we were shaped as a square and things that might be problematic. We will then go into One time I woke up and I was square... We will also be reviewing the 4 types of sentences.
In Math, we have started our Place Value unit. We will learn how ones, tens, and hundreds relate to each other. We will learn up to 1,000.
Finally this week we will learn about our American symbols and why they are important to us. We will do a quick 2-day symbol group project.
In Writing, we will talk about types of Narrative writing. We will then go into reading the book Square Cat. We will start to discuss things we could do better if we were shaped as a square and things that might be problematic. We will then go into One time I woke up and I was square... We will also be reviewing the 4 types of sentences.
In Math, we have started our Place Value unit. We will learn how ones, tens, and hundreds relate to each other. We will learn up to 1,000.
Finally this week we will learn about our American symbols and why they are important to us. We will do a quick 2-day symbol group project.
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