Update
Reminders:
October 7th: Student Count Day
October 16th: Fun Run. This event helps to fund many of the activities we do throughout the year. Thanks to all who have sent in their donations!
October 30th: Halloween Celebration, more info to come! Thanks to all who have sent in party donations!
Picture Day!
Language Arts
We continued to work on routines and procedures in Reading Learning Shop. We also learned about setting goals as a reader. We practiced all of our stations and did such a wonderful job staying on task the whole time. At Listen to Reading, students responded to prompts about what they heard. In Word Work, we studied words with blends at the end of the word (best, ring). We'll finish the blend concept on Monday and then focus on words with long vowels and the magic E. We've shopped for our book baggy books and continue to build stamina while reading to self. Almost all students have been tested in comprehension and decoding and we are ready for Teacher Time!
Blogging/Writing
This month, we'll begin to learn about blogging. We'll start off by learning, "What is blogging?" then move into digital citizenship. We'll create "paper blogs" while we learn how to take our writing through the writing process, and finally learn how to comment on others' blog posts using post it notes! By the end of the month I'm hoping that several students will be able to start blogging on their own blogs through Kidblogs. I've set up an account and Mrs. B. will be working with students to set up their pages, avatars, and learn how to navigate through the blogging process. I've found that this is a very motivating and positive way to teach writing to first and second graders. When students have a larger audience, and they know their peers and even families are reading their pieces online, they tend to revise, edit and care more about their writing. I'll send more information home about Kidblog as we get closer to our launch!
Top Ten Reasons for Students to Blog
Math
This week we practiced our Math Learning Stations by staying on task the whole time, learning about clean up expectations and rotating from station to station. Students worked on Math Journal practice during teacher time and learning how to work with a calculator to skip count. At Math and Writing, students practiced explaining their thinking with math prompts in their Math and Writing books. At Math to Self, students worked on review math and basic skills as well as building stamina and at Math with Someone, students played several games in order to practice skills (Greater Than and Less Than, Skip Counting on a Number Grid game, Even and Odd Numbers).
Next week, we'll finish up the unit by exploring counting change and review of all concepts from this unit. The Unit One test will be given on Friday, October 9th. A review packet was sent home on Friday. If you'd like your child to use IXL to practice skills for this unit, they should use any of the A (Counting and Number Patterns) or B (Comparing and Ordering) activities.
Social Studies
Last week we began our first social studies unit on Family and Communities. We are learning about families and we'll begin our study of communities, human and natural characteristics of communities, and transportation in communities. This week, we will be exploring maps and students will have an opportunity to make maps of their own.
I'm looking forward to another wonderful week!!!! Have a great one!
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