Monday, September 30

Monday, September 30

Our shining star this week is Paxton!

Letter Study: GgPopcorn Word: is

 Name Focus: Gavin

Phonological Awareness: Oral Word Discrimination: Is one of the words different? The kids stand up if it is. EX: violin/vine
Adding Words to Sentences: Starting with 3 words and adding more...

Language Arts: Comprehension Strategy: Analyze characters through their actions, words, thoughts, and feelings and visualizing to deepen understanding of characters.

DAILY 5: 8 minutes of 'Read to Self' stamina on Friday!
Math: A Counting Book

In our unit of Counting and Comparing, the children will be creating their own counting book of quantities up to 12. Each page represents a number so it may take 2 or 3 days to complete.
Their work focuses on:
~Developing strategies for accurately counting and keeping track of quantities up to 12.
~Representing quantities with pictures, numbers, and/or words.
*Zero the Hero visits today! Day 20*

Smart Room: Today ends the September theme for the Smart Room. I will highlight the new stations beginning tomorrow.

~Watch for the Fire Station permission slip to come home in your child's folder today.

Friday, September 27

  Friday, September 27

Letter Study: Review letters/sounds (E, F)

 Name Focus: Paxton

Language Arts: Building Fluency during Reader's Theater

DAILY 5: The most minutes of 'Read to Self' yet yesterday! They made it 7 minutes! We are getting closer to adding the 'Work on Writing' component.

 Math Stations: 
~Counting Jar...record your findings
~Number Punch: Using a hole punch, make as many holes in the card as what is written on it. (Great fine motor activity too!)
~'Race to Trace': Roll a dot cube and trace the corresponding number to see which number gets to the end first.
Music with Mrs. Nelson is from 9:50-10:20.
Library Day!
Project: The children will cut out a frog that has quite a few curves and angles.
We are displaying them in the hall.

SMART Room: Have your child show you how to do 'Popcorn'.

~We will be visiting the Maple Lake Fire Station on Wednesday, October 9. More details to come.

Have a fun-filled weekend!

Thursday, September 26

Thursday, September 26

Letter Study: Ff

Popcorn Word: and
I use this terminology for our sight words as they seem to 'pop' out everywhere in our reading!

 Name Focus: Natasha

Phonological Awareness: Rhyme Recognition: Listening for two out of three words that rhyme. EX: cast/ring/bring
Concept of Words: Counting with blocks, the number of words in a sentence.

Language Arts: Practice fluency and pacing using Hickory, Dickory, Dock rhyme

Our storybook reader yesterday.
Handwriting: F (Big line, little line, little line)

DAILY 5: A tad shy of 6 minutes of uninterrupted 'Read to Self' time yesterday! Yahoo!

? Math: Today's Question ?
This introductory lesson to data collection. The children will be asked, "Do you like Summer?" They will drag their name over to yes or no and find out what the class outcome is. Looking at the data, an interactive discussion will take place about what it tells us. EX: Which has more/less, How many more?

Smart Room
 
~Tomorrow is Spirit Day. Wear your Irish Colors-the Homecoming parade is in town tomorrow eve.
~Miss Slettedahl is taking over many of the lessons and will be teaching fnext week. I am in the classroom with her the entire time to provide support when needed. I wish you could all experience what she is doing. I have to say you can be assured that what she plans to do with the kids goes above and beyond expectations. She is providing multiple intelligences throughout the lessons (music, sensory, visual, auditory, etc.) that reaches many ways to help children learn!! 

Wednesday, September 25

Wednesday, September 25

Letter Study: Ff
 Popcorn-Sight Word: and

 Name Focus: Ryne

Phonological Awareness: Oral Word Discrimination-Which word is different?
EX: check/cheese/check...kids point to # 1 or #2 or #3
Short and Long Words: Oral discrimination (takes longer to say) and visual discrimination (looks longer/shorter)
EX: tree -dinosaur

Language Arts: Practice reading Hickory, Dickory, Dock with varied speed and pacing. Tonight, I will send home this poem to work on fluency/pacing with your child. Please point to the words as you read it with your child. This will reinforce what we worked on today. Ideas to remember:
~We read different kinds of texts at different speeds.
~We read easy parts faster and hard parts slower.
~We match our pacing to what the author is saying.
~Reading too fast makes the reading hard to understand.
~Reading too slowly does not sound natural.
~No matter what speed we use to read, we pay attention to punctuation.

DAILY 5: When practicing stamina, the children are working on:
~Staying in one spot.
~Get started right away.
~Eyes on book.
~Read the whole time.
~Quiet.
~Away from friends.
***They made it 5 minutes yesterday! They are building their muscle memory to make useful time of their reading stamina.

Computer class with Miss Casebolt is from 9:00-9:30 this morning.

A storybook reader is scheduled for 9:50 this morning to read Amelia Bedelia's First Apple Pie.

Smart Room: Have your child do Superman for you.