Pine Class News Update
February 13, 2015
Read, read, read
Here are some examples and questions to help you guide your young reader solve unfamiliar words.
"The koala loved it's new h______ in the zoo."
What makes sense?.....Yes, 'home' makes sense.
"The trees is really tall."
Does that sound right?....'The trees are' sounds better.
"The cat s___"
What looks right? Yes, 'the cat' sat looks right.
And don't forget comprehension...
What do you think good readers do? Talk with your child about that.
We think good readers:
- summarize
- ask questions
- make inferences
- think about what's most important
- visualize
- and then ask some more questions
Map of the School Building
Worms!
We have real worms in our classroom. They live in a worm bin. Inside the worm bin, we have paper and worms. We were doing a good job holding the worms carefully.
Editing in Writing
Publishing and editing at this age do not require that everything is fixed and perfect. That would be counterproductive. We still encourage invented (phonetic) spelling. And we understand that many of our kids are still writing capital letters where a lowercase letter belongs, because they are not as comfortable forming lower case letters. That's something that we will practice during handwriting time.
So, what, you might ask, are these young editors responsible for?
1. They try to find places to put a capital letter at the beginning of a sentence.
2. They try to spell all of our word wall words accurately.
That search for the beginning of the sentence helped some kids start to use punctuation, which we hadn't even taught yet. It was great to see young writers constructing knowledge about punctuation on their own as a response to our editing requirement about capital letters at the beginning of each sentence.
Thanks!
We really appreciate the parent help with germ management.
Break Bread
We hope to see you February 28.
THE DETAILS
Where: 63 Rutland Rd, Brooklyn NY
When : 1-4PM, Saturday Feb 28th
100th Day!
Please start making a collection of any 100 objects. It would make the most sense to collect objects that are roughly the same size so kids can start to connect the concepts of size, quantity and magnitude.
Please group the objects for easy counting and recounting.
And bring the collection in on Thursday, February 26.