Monday, January 27

Monday, January 13
Sight Word Focus: all

Reading Strategy: Lips the Fish
    Over the next couple of weeks we will focus in on reading strategies that will help children decode words when they get stuck. The children will learn about Lips the Fish today.

Reader's Workshop:Make Inferences

Using the poster below, we will talk about what we know already just by looking at the picture.

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: Storybooks
The kids will finish their storybook today so I can share it with you at conferences.

 Literacy Jobs
*Book Club is back in session! 

 Math: Composing Simple Shapes

At the beginning of this lesson we will help the kids become confident in knowing a shape is a shape no matter its size or orientation. I will hold up two cards that are the same shape but not the same size/orientation and ask the kids if they agree that they are the same shape. If they disagree, I will help them understand the rules of shapes.
 After we have gone through the shape cards, I will hand out one card per student and call up a shape name and those students will come to the front with their card. We will verify that it is the correct shape and call up the next group of students.
Next, I will read the story, The Shape of Things by Dayle Dodds and as I read the text, we will stop and discuss the flat shapes they see making up the larger picture.  Tangrams will be given to the kids to create a picture using the flat shapes. We are making a class book so each child will create their own page by drawing/writing their initial shape onto the line and then indicate their final creation on the following line.

PhyEd Today

 

~Governor Tim Walz has proclaimed January 27-31 as Paraprofessional Recognition Week. As you know, our paras play an important role in our success, and we would certainly be lost without them. Please join me in thanking our paras for all of the things they do for our students, staff and school district every day.  

~Conferences are this week....Tuesday: 4-7 and Thursday: 4-7.