The Maples
12.11 - 12.15
Important Events
- Community Gathering - 12/20 - come one, come all!
- December 22, 3:30pm - December Birthday Celebration
- December 22, 8:45am - December Family Day - Celebrating the end of our Integrated Unit, What Does, 'We're All In This Together' Mean To Me?
- Monday, December 25 - January 2 - Winter Break!
This Week, We...
- Practiced decoding skills together as we read more nonfiction books in Reading Workshop. Skills included: doing a check and recheck, saying the word s-l-o-w-l-y, using contextual clues in the picture, and trying both sounds for the vowels we're reading.
- Continued studying the crafts of Angela Johnson and planned our projects for the end of our Integrated Unit study in Writing Workshop. We looked at repeaters (lines or words that repeat over and over for extra emphasis), extra big and extra small letters and words (to help the readers read with feeling), and sound effects (for fun!).
- Looked at combinations with both addends unknown within combinations of 7, 9, and 10 in Math Workshop. We played a game called How Many Am I Hiding?, and looked closely at number facts and combinations.
- Started planning our projects for our Integrated Unit celebration during Work Time. Some students are taking a survey of people in the school, some are building a 3-D map, some are making a treasure map, and some are writing a book.
Next Week, We Will...
- Continue to look closely at nonfiction texts in Reading Workshop and practice our decoding strategies in guided reading.
- Finish our study of Angela Johnson in Writing Workshop. Next up (after break) - nonfiction writing!
- Continue to explore number combinations and strategies for solving problems with addends unknown in Math Workshop.
- Finish our Integrated Unit study and finish up our projects during Work Time!
Ask Me About...
- The book we made for the new Maple!
- The song that Malcolm made up that has quickly become a class favorite - Three Little Mice Sitting On The Fence.
- Our projects during Work Time - surveys, cork people, maps, and more!
- Performing at Community Gathering!
Pictures From The Week
Working in partners during Math Workshop.
Making equations for combinations with addends unknown in Math Workshop.
Taking a closer look at Angela Johnson's work in Writing Workshop.
One page from the book we made for our new student.
Making our own flash cards for words we want to learn in guided reading!
Surveying the Compass community during Work Time!
Cork people in the works! We're making cork versions of all the people at Compass for our 3-D map.