Monday, February 22

 Monday, February 22 

Popcorn Word: each
Number Word Focus: five
 Word Family: -it

Reader's Workshop: Through the story Who's in the Shed? by Brenda Parkes, the kids will build academic vocabulary and concepts related to farms, review concepts of print, and make inferences about the text.

 Writer's Workshop: The children will be introduced to 'procedural writing'. In other words, telling the order of things-like how to make a peanut butter sandwich.
DAILY 5

SMART Room

PhyEd today
DEAR 2:40-2:55
 Math: Heavier, Lighter, Same As
New Concept: We have been comparing the weight of two items. How does my the balance look when an item is heavier? That end dips down. How does it look when an item is lighter? That end is up. What would my scale look like if two items were the same weight? The buckets or cups would be even or the same. Add a pencil to one cup and another item (pen) that weighs the same in the other cup. Discuss how you know they weigh the same. Take the other item (pen) out and put a penny in the other cup. Say Which weighs more the pencil or one penny? Add another penny. Say Which weighs more a pencil or two pennies? Continue adding pennies until they are the same as the pencil.
Whole Group Explore: Today you and your partner will be weighing objects to see how many pennies they are. You will do just what I did. You will put one object in the cup. Then add pennies to see how many pennies it weighs. Then you will write your answer.
Students from Mrs. Fynboh's High School Spanish class will be with us every day this week from 8:15-8:50 to teach some basic Spanish to our kids. Today they will give each child their name in Spanish and introduce the alphabet.
 The students from St.Cloud Technical & Community Collegewill be here at 2:00 to help us learn about dental health.

~Keep recording your reading minutes!
~We enjoyed celebrating with Andrew on Friday...