Thursday, April 3

Thursday, April 3
Happy Birthday Brayden!

 Popcorn Word: which
 Word Family: -ing
Blend Friend: cl

Writer's Workshop: Book Review-Analyze Illustrations
The children will review the illustrations in Katy's First Day of School and write an opinion and state the reason why they liked/disliked those.
Handwriting: lowercase y & j
Language Arts: Answering Text-Dependent Comprehension Questions By Comparing and Contrasting
Be sure to look for the paper that will come home tonight that shows their work done on this!
 DAILY 5!
  Math: Shape Match
The children will identify objects that look like 3-D shapes and write what is found next to the corresponding shape.
Their work focuses on:
~Relating 3-D shapes to real-world objects.
~Developing language to describe and compare 2-D and 3-D shapes and their attributes.
Time For Kids: Animals of Antarctica

Smart Room Highlight: ABC Puzzles

Wednesday, April 2

Wednesday, April 2

 Popcorn Word: which

Word Family: -ing
Blend Friend: cl
Language Arts: The kids will identify comparisons and contrasts in photographs and text.
 **Homework: Have your child read What is Soft? What is Hard? to find comparisons and contrasts. Return tomorrow with your signature for your child to receive a shamrock stamp.

Math: Vinci Tablets...We're going to the carnival to make patterns!
Computer Class Today!

DAILY 5!
 Music today is from 9:20-9:50.
**It was my honor to have lunch with these fine achievers!

  Smart Room Highlight: Collecting Eggs From the Pie Tins While on the Balance Beam


~The book order is due Wednesday, April 9.

Tuesday, April 1

Tuesday, April 1

Word Family: -ake
Today's Blend: bl
 Popcorn Word: their
  Language Arts: Determine Text Importance
To compare and contrast, readers need to cue-in to important details. A signal word like too gives the reader a clue that things are alike. A signal word like but may tell the reader how something is different. To introduce this, I w
 Writer's Workshop: We continue our work with writing a book review by analyzing characters. Using the big book Katy's First Day of School I will talk about how Katy's brother helps her on the first day of school and why I thought he was helpful to her. Next, the kids will choose a character from the same story and write why they liked him/her. 
 A storybook reader is scheduled for 10:10 to read Inside a Barn in the Country.
Handwriting: lowercase k & words/sentences with k

 Daily 5!

Math:  Shape Hunt 
The children will look around our classroom for objects that look like some 3-D shapes and write what is found next to the corresponding shape.
Their work focuses on:
~Relating 3-D shapes to real-world objects.
~Developing language to describe and compare 2-D and 3-D shapes and their attributes.
**Here are the Geobands/Geoboards we use:
 
**These are the Geoblocks:

 Smart Room Highlight: Crawling Through the April Showers

 *Here are our Blend Friends who will help us learn the many different blends in words!

 
~We are looking forward to having lunch in our classroom today! I am tickled about the work each child did over break...Kudos to all!