Monday, September 10, 2012

Weekly Update 9.10.12


This week during our literacy block, we will continue to create a classroom community of readers.  We will talk about the importance of schema.  Schema is a reader’s prior knowledge.  We will discuss the difference between fiction and non-fiction genre and will sort books into their genre category.  Some of our text connections this week include Sheila Rae the Brave and a Time for Kids article called Fly with a Butterfly.

We will also introduce another component of Daily Five called Word Work.  We will establish our word work expectations and practice the routines and different word work activities.  We will also introduce our vocabulary journals as well.  Please look for a detailed explanation of the Daily Five coming this week on the blog!  Last week, we introduced the Read to Self component of Daily Five and will continue to practice and perfect the Read to Self procedures and expectations, and build our reading stamina to 20 minutes.

In writing, we will begin writer’s workshop by establishing routines and introducing our booklets for personal narrative writing.  We will also discuss the different genres of writing including personal narrative, expository and fiction.  We will begin to discuss topic selection for our first personal narratives. 

In math, we will continue on in Unit One.  This week our lessons will focus on patterns on the hundreds chart, number grids, equivalent names for numbers and counting patterns.  We will also have some baseline assessments on telling time and counting coin combinations. 

In science, we will focus on the animal group of amphibians. After a general overview of the amphibian group, we will focus our study on frogs.  The main teaching point for this unit will be the life cycle of the frog.  This week we will look at characteristics of frogs and begin to look at the frog life cycle.   We will have a frog scavenger hunt on Friday in order to learn more fun facts about frogs!

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