Monday, January 4

 Monday, January 4 

Happy New Year! The children are making a picture of themselves blowing a horn to ring in 2016!

Color Word Focus: red

 Reader's Workshop: Introduce the comprehension strategy: Make Inferences

• Readers make inferences using clues in text and pictures and what they know to figure out what an author does not state directly.
• Making inferences helps readers make sense of a text and build interest as they read.
• Making inferences encourages readers to think about the message an author is communicating.

 Writer's Workshop: We will discuss what resolutions are and write about one resolution we want for school.

Math: We are finishing up our work on whole/part-part by making a class book. The children will be put in partners and given a story problem to work on for a page in the book. This will be displayed at conferences later this month.
Music Today

DAILY 5...We have many new literacy stations now available for Word Work and Work on Writing.
 Smart Room: The Smart Room is being changed into a snowman and winter theme.
 
~Be sure to return your homework packet. Lunch will be in our classroom tomorrow.
~Please email me if you need a new sight word list.
~If you haven't done so, please send in a tube of Chapstick that your child can keep at school or in their backpack. Thanks!
~Memories from our trip on the Polar Express...