Wednesday, November 29

Wednesday, November 29
Letter Study: Vv

Sight Word Focus: at
Reading Skills: Story Elements (Setting, Characters, Problem, Solution)
We will use The Shoe Mix-Up poster to work on these skills.

DAILY 5: We've added a new component to our DAILY 5 routine...Listen to Reading. The children use QR codes linked to stories online using iphones, ipods, or ipads. Again, the other components are:
Word Work
Work on Writing
Read to Self
 Writer's Workshop: Writer's Workshop has Routines
Math: Counting Strategies
New Concept: Today you will be working with a different manipulative to demonstrate and support the counting strategies. (Students need multiple opportunities to practice the same skills.) We will be adding rigor by working with larger numbers. Providing a different manipulative will add novelty to the task and raise students’ engagement. Place a pile of manipulatives in front of you (roughly 15-20). I will place the manipulatives on the ten-frame in the same way as I did yesterday. 
Whole Group Explore: Today you will practice counting the manipulatives in your bag. Remember our counting strategies as you count your buttons.    
Student Application: We will need to use the count and check strategy on our paper again today. We won’t be able to move the pictures, so we will want to check them off as we count them.  

Music Today

Social Studies: Cooperation-Day 2
We can be a good citizen when we cooperate. The children will work together to make a picture that involves deciding who will make each part and what color to use.

~The book order is due Wednesday, December 6. If you want to order books as gifts, just let me know!
~The children enjoyed the storybook reader yesterday...