Thursday, April 30

Thursday, April 30

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 Language Arts: Again, we will use the poem Hot Cross Buns to work on using inflection, expression, and intonation to make their reading sound like talking. We will then move into reading Look at It Go! to practice these skills.
 

 Writer's Workshop: We continue our work on Informational Reports. Once again, we look at tadpoles and write two topic sentences from pages 12-13.
Some adult frogs lay eggs.
The eggs hatch into tadpoles.

Math: Today we will keep working on story problem and again we will BE the number bond! Some bees were buzzing by the blue flowers. Do we know how many yet? No, we will need more information. Then 4 more joined them. Now there are 7. Okay, I know there are 7 in all and I already have 4. How many do I need to add?  I also can write the fact family for this problem. Watch! We work on other problems similar to this as well.
**Zero the Hero visits today...Day 150!

Computer
Miss Casebolt will be coming to our classroom with the Ipad cart during our scheduled computer time for the next few weeks. The Computer Lab is being used for MCA testing.
Handwriting: Copying the paragraph:
Fire drill! What do we do?
Stay in line.
Walk out.
DAILY 5

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 PhyEd Today

~The K-kids will be involved with Track & Field Day on Friday, May 22. This is new for us, so we are in the final planning stages and will get information to you as soon as we get it finalized. They will only participate in the morning.

Wednesday, April 29

Wednesday, April 29  
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 Language Arts: Practice Reading Hot Cross Buns with Expression

Writer's Workshop: Unfortunately, we ran out of time yesterday to have Writer's Workshop so We continue our work on Informational Reports. Today, we look at tadpoles and write two topic sentences from pages 8-9.
Tadpoles grow and change.
A tadpole grows legs. It loses its tail.

Math: Today we will keep working on story problems and again, the kids will BE the number bond! We are going to act out this story problem: There were 3 cupcakes on a plate. (Three children stand in a hula hoop). Some more were added. Now there are 7. (We think aloud as we count on to reach 7. These students move to the other hula hoop). How many were added? (We count the number we added to the other hula hoop) Now we write the fact family for this problem and guide the kids towards building subtraction equations.
**These pictures show a Human Number Bond in action!

  DAILY 5
*I am tickled to pieces as to how well everyone is reading in our class! It warms my heart to see their little minds at work becoming literate!

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Music Today

 ~We enjoyed our storybook reader yesterday...

Tuesday, April 28

Tuesday, April 28

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  Language Arts: Using the story, Look at It Go! the children will build fluency through echo-reading.

 Writer's Workshop: We continue our work on Informational Reports. Today, we look at tadpoles and write two topic sentences from pages 8-9.
Tadpoles grow and change.
A tadpole grows legs. It loses its tail.

Handwriting: Writing punctuation marks alone and after sentences.
 A storybook reader is scheduled for 10:10 to read I'm Special, I'm Me.

 Daily 5!

Math: Our next lessons will take a closer look at story problems. We have been working with number bonds in the past, but today we will BE the number bond! I will call 5 students up to have them act out the number bond. We are going to act out this story problem. There were 3 friends playing basketball in the park (have them stand in one of the hula hoops). There were 2 friends playing on the swings at the park (have them stand in the other hula hoop). How many were in the park altogether? (have all of the students move to the larger hula hoop).

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~Trash to Cash collection is tomorrow.

Monday, April 27

 Monday, April 27

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 Language Arts: We will work with the Reader's Theater story Look at it Go! this week.We will discuss the concept of toys children can make, make connections before reading the story, build concepts of print and academic/sight word vocabulary.


 Writer's Workshop: We continue our work on Informational Reports. Today, we look at The Life Cycle of a Frog and write two topic sentences from pages 4-5.
Every animal has a life cycle.
Animals change and grow.

Math: We will work with teen numbers again. We will use our pony bead 10 rods to pull a number out of a bag. Then they will build the number with the beads. (Example: pull a 13 and build it.) The kids write it two different ways:
____ + ____ = _____
or
____ = ____ + ____
DAILY 5

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Music Today

 Time For Kids: All About Bridges

~Happy Monday and enjoy what sounds like a glorious weather week ahead!