October 21, 2013

Students had a treasure hunt with my pirate twin, Captain Andersen.

Autumn Trees

A few reminders...
Please send in a pair of in-ear headphones by Wednesday. These will be kept in the classroom all year and used only by your child.

If your child would like a turn to bring home our Pet Pal, please click on the link in your email to check the schedule. Then, email me with your date request.

Lastly, Friday is a Pro D day!

Ten Frame Name

Math:  We explored patterns on a number chart and number line. We continued to identify odd and even numbers and practice counting by 2s, 5s, and 10s. Some of the students were fascinated by the fact that they could tell if any number, no matter how large, was odd or even, based on the digit in the ones place! This week, we will count by 5s and 10s using coins, describe order using ordinal numbers (for example: first, second, third) and estimate and count groups of objects.

We played Wack a Mole and various ten frame games on the computer.

Daily 5: Listen to Reading

Language Arts: We continued to rehearse our Reader's Theatre play for "Where the Wild Things Are". We did some work work with autumn vocabulary (and drew a fall picture). We also added the listening station to our repertoire for Daily 5 and drew heart maps for the covers of our writing folders. The items on our heart maps are topics we might like to use in our writing.

Daily 5: Work on Writing

When your child comes into the classroom, we spend the first part of the day engaged in Daily 5. Students make a choice between Read to Self, Read to Someone, Listen to Reading (either on the laptop or dektop computer or with the CD player at the Listening Station), or Work on Writing. Sometimes, students also work with me in a small group at the Teacher Table. Halfway through the block, the students are asked to make a second selection for Daily 5, so that they work their way through two of the five choices each day.

Theme: Students made fall trees by tracing their own hands for the tree trunk and gluing on tissue paper leaves. I am so impressed by how well they turned out. Please have a look at our display if you're in the school this week. Soon, we will write autumn poetry and other autumn themed stories.

We have been busy exploring ocean animals and many students were excited to watch the live web cams from the aquarium.

We are looking forward to another fun week at school!