The Maples
11.6 - 11.10
Important Dates
- November 20-24 - NO SCHOOL! HAPPY THANKSGIVING BREAK!
- Thursday, November 30th and Friday, December 1st - Half Day For Students for Family Conferences
- Friday, November 17th - November Family Day
Family Day - November 17th
This coming Friday, November 17th, we will have our second Family Day activity. Please join us for a publishing party to mark the end of our Small Moments unit of Writing Workshop. You already came in to help the Maples have an audience - now, look at a "finished" product! We have been hard at work learning about different ways to revise and edit.
Where: The Maple Room
What: Writing Workshop Publishing Party
When: Friday, November 17th from 9:30 - 10:00
Have An Extra Hand?
There are still a few classroom tasks we need help with!
- Water Bottles - if you haven't already signed up to wash water bottles on a Friday, please do so here. Remember, if everyone signs up three times, we'll be good for the year!
- Library Organizer* - thank you so much to Jill for helping us organize our classroom library! We still need to apply stickers to every book so that the Maples can put their books away all by themselves.
- Have an old iPod/iPhone? We're still looking for some for our listening center!
*There is no school for students on November 20th and 21st, but all faculty and staff will be at Compass for professional development. If these days work for you for any volunteer time, we will be happy to coordinate.
This Week, We...
- Learned about different shapes and their attributes for Math Workshop. We learned the word quadrilateral and practiced using math language to describe shapes. We also sorted shapes by their attributes.
- Tried different strategies for decoding in Reading Workshop. One thing all the Maples are practicing is re-reading to see if a word makes sense after sounding it out! We also discovered that once you learn a new word, it becomes a snap word. Ask your Maple what words they learned in guided reading!
- Revised and edited our stories in Writing Workshop. Our Small Moments unit is coming to a close, and now we're hard at work getting our books as ready as possible for publishing!
- Started to explore maps in our Integrated Unit. We started to construct a map of the school in our classroom on the back of the hollow block shelf, near the big rug. Check it out during Morning Activities!
Next Week, We Will...
- Continue to explore all kinds of maps.
- Keep editing and revising our stories.
- Keep being word detectives in Reading Workshop.
- Finish our geometry unit in Math Workshop.
Pictures From The Week
Woodworking at Work Time!
Sorting shapes by attribute during Math Workshop.
Author's Chair Share at Writing Workshop.
Author's Chair Share during Writing Workshop.
Sorting word families during Word Study.
Our Shape Sort!
Sorting shapes together during Math Workshop.
Conferencing during Writing Workshop. That sign means a teacher can't be bothered!
Playing "Magic Statue Garden" at Morning Meeting.
Creating our own attribute sorts in Math Workshop.
The autumnal stylings of the Maples!
Research for our first map of the school for the Integrated Unit.
A work in progress!
Labeling parts of our map.