Room 322 News
A Weekly Review
Panther Pride--Keep Pounding!
February 1-5, 2016
Word Work: The next WTW test will be on next Friday.
Writing: We have started writing an informational piece of writing based on the facts students have learned from their non-fiction books. This will continue into next week.
ELA: This week we have finished up our non-fiction post test and are in full swing of Unit 4: Shoring Up. This unit focuses on revisiting/reteaching foundational skills good readers have. This week's focus in mini lessons was on fluency. We compared texts and found that authors leave clues about how to read their writing: fiction we generally use a "storyteller" voice for and non-fiction books are more in a "teacher" voice. Students practiced finding these clues and reading a variety of texts aloud as the author would've envisioned. Another fluency topic discussed was how we want to work hard to blend phrases together and not to be "leaky faucet" readers where each word is separated. Friday we added another topic to the mix which was using punctuation as clues to tell us how we can read with proper expression. In small groups, we've been focusing a lot on word-solving strategies that can be used when you come across a tricky word.
Science: I am *so* very excited to be teaching science and energy and matter is such a fun topic. Scientific journals have been distributed and students have learned and can provide examples of the three states of matter. We also did an easy experiment that shows all three states of matter at once called 'Dancing Raisins'. If you want to try it at home, pour some Sprite in a clear glass and add raisins...what is happening and why is it happening? Our class has fully embraced the scientist role!
Measure Me Books
Zig-Zags
1000s Club
ENCORE
Tuesday: PE
Wednesday: Art
Thursday: Music
Friday: Science
Super Bowl Math Game
Super Bowl Predictions
Super Bowl Math Game
Valentine's Day!
Listed below is a list of our class names for addressing Valentines to:
- Girls: Sophie, Lola, Hali, Maddie, Heaven, Peyton, Isabella, Tatiana, Ella, Kiley, Ahzhai, Arianna, Jade
- Boys: Logan, McKinly, Davin, Alex, Cody, Caden, Daylin, Justin, Carlos, Adi
Respect
Dancing Raisins
Dancing Raisins
A note on toys...
Fluent Readers Notice Punctuation
Punctuation Match
Partner Reading to Encourage Fluency
Upcoming Odell Events
All these events can be found in your copy of Draco's Digest which was passed out earlier this week--these are the ones specific to this month if you are interested:
- Cabarrus County Gymnastics Parents Night Out-February 19th 6:30-10 PM
- Chick-Fil-A February 23rd 3-8PM
- Staff Hospitality February 26
**Class Pictures moved to the 16th**
Book Fair at the end of the month