Tuesday, April 1

Tuesday, April 1

Word Family: -ake
Today's Blend: bl
 Popcorn Word: their
  Language Arts: Determine Text Importance
To compare and contrast, readers need to cue-in to important details. A signal word like too gives the reader a clue that things are alike. A signal word like but may tell the reader how something is different. To introduce this, I w
 Writer's Workshop: We continue our work with writing a book review by analyzing characters. Using the big book Katy's First Day of School I will talk about how Katy's brother helps her on the first day of school and why I thought he was helpful to her. Next, the kids will choose a character from the same story and write why they liked him/her. 
 A storybook reader is scheduled for 10:10 to read Inside a Barn in the Country.
Handwriting: lowercase k & words/sentences with k

 Daily 5!

Math:  Shape Hunt 
The children will look around our classroom for objects that look like some 3-D shapes and write what is found next to the corresponding shape.
Their work focuses on:
~Relating 3-D shapes to real-world objects.
~Developing language to describe and compare 2-D and 3-D shapes and their attributes.
**Here are the Geobands/Geoboards we use:
 
**These are the Geoblocks:

 Smart Room Highlight: Crawling Through the April Showers

 *Here are our Blend Friends who will help us learn the many different blends in words!

 
~We are looking forward to having lunch in our classroom today! I am tickled about the work each child did over break...Kudos to all!