THE MAPLES
10.9 - 10.13
Important Dates
- Thursday October 19th and Friday October 20th, School Picture Days more information coming soon
- Thursday October 26th, Family Day*
- Friday October 27th, New Victory Theater field trip to see "A Sky for the Bears"
*A note regarding Family Day for October: Our first family day was scheduled for the 27th of October, but we found that it conflicted with our field trip to New Victory Theater. We moved Family Day to Thursday the 26th.
Reading Workshop
This week saw Maples continuing to build on our new Reading Workshop rotations. Each day they have been increasing their independent reading and word study times and going more in depth in their small guided reading groups. The Maples focused on self checking skills such as re reading, checking for context and strategies for sounding out words.
Writing Workshop
In Writing Workshop this week Maples focused on hearing all of the sounds in the words we want to write, even if they are tricky words. Maples practiced stretching their words out on the page and listening for sounds and patterns in their writing. Maples then put the strategies for stretching and sounding out to work in their small moment stories. Maples also learned how writing partners can help by listening to a story, making suggestions and helping their partner find the best way to write tricky words.
Math Workshop
The Maples worked towards understanding subtraction and subtraction equations in Math Workshop. Throughout the week we worked on subtraction story problems, modeled our thinking and experimented with turning our models into equations.
Ask Me About
- The new tag game we learned with the Magnolias
- How we show what we know in Math
- What stories we want to tell in small moments
- Why we picked our books from the book fair