Team Austin 1A
October 13, 2015
Janell Thach
Language Arts
Interactive read alouds:
The Pumpkin Blanket
Thundercake
Shared reading:
Christopher Columbus poem
Reader's Workshop
*procedures review: Where to read during Reader's Workshop
*solving difficult words you come to as you read
*making text to self connections and recording them
Writer's Workshop:
*what to do when you think you've finished a piece of writing
*stretching out a tricky word
*parts of a complete sentence
*putting punctuation in the correct place
Shared writing: Christopher Columbus
We will be using a circle map to model writing about Columbus with an opening sentence and closing sentence.
Word Work: short vowel words with the inflectional ending -s
high frequency words: your, when
TEST ON FRIDAY
Handwriting: lower case letters l, k, y, j
Math
*skip counting by 10's from any given number to 120
*counting forward and backward from 1 to 120
*using relationships to determine the number that is 10 more or 10 less than a given number
Social Studies / Science
Christopher Columbus / Introduction to animals
*describing the origin of holidays in our nation
*using classroom investigations to ask questions and seek answers
*using critical thinking in scientific problem solving (boat making experiment)
*observing current plant experiments and recording data
*identifying different animal habits and how external characteristics on an animal are related to where it lives, how it moves and what it eats
Other
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Thank you to everyone who was able to attend their parent conference last week. It was insightful to hear from you and I appreciate the opportunity to give you an update on your child's academic progress.