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.