Thursday, January 9

Thursday, January 9

 Word Family: -ug

Sight Word Focus: if

 Fluency Skills: Pausing-Full Stop

We have learned that we pause, or rest, between some words. Pausing helps us divide our sentences into meaningful parts, which helps listeners understand what we are saying, too. Punctuation helps us figure out when to pause. The punctuation at the end of a sentence signals a longer pause than the punctuation inside the sentence. At the end of a sentence, we come to a full stop and take a breath before the next sentence.

 Writer's Workshop: Are you Really Done?

“Boys and girls, I’ve been working on this story and I wanted to show it to you! What do you think about my story? What’s my story about? What do you mean you don’t know? This is me! How could I help you to know this is me in the picture? Oh, yes, I can write my name above so that you know. This is a story about a time I went to the beach, but I’m already done with this story.” (Go to put the story away in your writing folder. Hopefully students will look confused and question if your story is actually done.) “Oh! You don’t think my story is done? I agree! There is so much I can add. I will add some sand. Okay, now I am done! Wait! You still say it’s not done? So what else can I add? Okay, I will add some water, a sun, some fish and my sister, too! Now my story is done. Yahoo! Oh no! You’re right! I forgot to add words to my story. Will you help me write my story? What could I say? I think I will write, ‘The beach is fun.’ 

“Boys and girls, when we are writing, we want to make sure we are persevering! Have you ever seen anyone run a race? They are running fast so they can be the first one to run through the ribbon. Do you think a racer would just stop running and sit down before they made it to the ribbon? The same goes for our writing! We just keep working until the teacher says time is up. We add pictures, words to our story and then more details in our picture! 

 

Literacy Jobs

 Math: About 18: Number Order

We have worked hard to know that teen numbers are made up of a group of 10 and some more. Today we will work on ordering teen numbers from the smallest to the largest. 

• Why exactly do teen numbers start with a one?

• Lead students in a conversation about why they think teen numbers start with a one. Teen numbers start with a one because all teen numbers contain ONE group of ten and then some more. Students will see that the numbers they line up today will all contain a 1 and then they will need to look at the second digit to know which number comes first, next, etc.

Music Today

 Time for Kids: A World of Flags (We did not get to this yesterday.)
 Handwriting: lowercase r 
(Good thing the kiddos are flexible...you guessed it, we didn't get to this yesterday either!)
 
~We enjoyed celebrating with Teddy yesterday...