This week, our guided reading program is in full swing! Small group instruction and our full daily five program are both up and running smoothly. Small reading groups and small word work groups will now be occurring daily during our morning literacy block. In whole group reading we will be focusing on making connections. When readers interact with text, they activate their schema in order to connect the text with something in their own lives. This is called a text to self connection. Our literature links for the week include Lily's Purple Plastic Purse and Jamaica Tag Along.
In writer's workshop, we will have some mini-lessons on conventions and the differences between an asking sentence and a telling sentence. We will continue working on our personal narratives and receive feedback in both small writing groups as well as individual conferences.
In math, we continue on in Unit Two. This week, our lessons will focus on fact families, weights and scales and name collection boxes. We will continue to work on the speed and accuracy of our math fact recall during our "mad minute' exercises.
We will start out first unit in social studies this week. We will discuss the differences between needs and wants. We define needs as things that we need in order to live such as food, water, shelter and clothing. Our social studies text connection is a book called Is it a Need? Is it a Want?
This week, I will not be in school Tuesday. I will be attending a conference at Regis College about project based learning. Please send any emails regarding dismissal to Judith.
There is no school Friday October 5 and Monday October 8.
Thank you to everyone who attended Curriculum Night! If you were unable to attend or unable to sign up for a conference, please let me know so we can schedule. Thank you as well to all who signed up to be a regular classroom volunteer. We will be starting the volunteer schedule in November. Stay tuned!
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