Thursday, February 6

Thursday, February 6

Sight Word Focus: she
Reading Workshop: Rereading Katy's First Day of School to build fluency.

    

        Reading Strategy: Chunky Monkey
 Literacy Jobs

Writer's Workshop: Tap Out the Story
I copied this from the lesson so you can get a clear idea of what it means to 'Tap Out the Story'...

Today we are going to talk about something called tapping out our story! Listen to this story about something that happened to me in the past: ‘I went to the store with my mom. I really wanted a new rainbow coloring book, but then I saw a doll that I wanted, too. My mom said, “No,” but then I remembered that I had my own money so I got to buy the doll after all.’ Wow, boys and girls! Is that a tough sentence to write? Yes, that story has a lot of words. We can sometimes be overwhelmed by our ideas and that might make us give up.”

“Today I want to teach you about tapping out your story. This will tell you how many words will be in your story. What was the most important part about my story? Yes, I got to buy a doll. I think my story will be, ‘I bought a doll.’ Now I will tap that on my fingers.” (Show students how you raise a finger for each word in the story.) “This story has 4 words/taps. How many words will my story need? Yes, it needs 4 words. Do you know that sometimes when I get back to my seat, I get overwhelmed when I think about my story? But do you think if I reminded myself that it’s only 4 words I would be less worried? Yes, I will write four lines on my paper so I remember that I need four words.” “Boys and girls, not everyone will need to write lines for their story, but we should all tap our stories on our fingers so we know how many words we need. Think of your story you will write today. Now tap it on your fingers. How many words will you write? Let’s go write our tapped out stories!”
  Math: Counting By 10's

To begin the lesson, I will read the story Toasty Toes by Michael Dahl to focus on counting by 10’s. I will have 10 kids come to the front of the room and put out their hands and start counting by 1’s. I will act frustrated and say that this is too tedious. Is there an easier way we can count all these fingers? Hopefully the kids will encourage me to count by 2’s, 5’s, or 10’s.
Next, I will have the kids look over at the bookshelf and ask, Would it make sense to count these by 10’s? Yes! Be sure students know we count by 10’s only for a lot of things. The kids will now have time to explore counting to 100 by 10’s in a hands-on way.  Each pair will also need 1 blank ten frame and 10 small paper dessert plates.

They will count out 10 objects onto their ten frame, then transfer their ten frame to a small paper plate. They will continue counting out the 10 sets of objects until all 10 dessert plates are filled. They will then go back through and count the plates by 10’s to 100.
PhyEd Today

 
~For those of you who signed up for Rise & Read, see you at 7:30 tomorrow morning! Come in your PJ's!!