Mrs. Tongen's 'K'olorful K-Kids

Monday, December 16
Gavin is our special star this week!

 Popcorn Word: have

Writer's Workshop: Editing, continued on our class story
  Language Arts: Introduce Fluency Skills: Inflection/Intonation-Pitch
This will be done using the song Are You Sleeping?
 A storybook reader is scheduled for 10:10 to read Merry Christmas Splat.
 DAILY 5: I will introduce 'Read to Someone' today. Partners read to one another from books we have done in Book Club. This is the last component of DAILY 5. Again, the other components are:
~Word Work
~Work on Writing
~Listen to Reading
~Read to Self

Math: Measuring Different Shoe Lengths
The kids are measuring the length of their classmates' shoes using connecting cubes as the nonstandard units of measurement.
Their work focuses on:
~Recording measurements with pictures, numbers, and/or words.
~Repeating multiple nonstandard units (connecting cubes) to quantify length.
~Developing strategies for measuring the length of an object.

Smart Room Highlight: We have two tracks down now. (I don't have an updated photo but wanted to refresh your memory as to what a Creep Track is.) One track has simple sentences in it and the other has Ten Frames.

 Jingles is up here today...

We had so much fun at the Reindeer Games on Friday-especially the Reindeer Run through the halls!