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Week in Review

12/15/2017

Our featured language this week is from Laos.
Sabaidee (hello)
Lakon (goodbye)

Current Trick Words: who, what, when
review trick words: are, were, do, does, from, have, the, a, and, is, his, of as, has, to, into, we, he, she, be, me, or, for, you, your, I, they, one, said, was

Poems of the week

This week in school...

Sophia shared about her weekend with Piggie. Zakari is taking Gerald home today! Have fun Zak!
we went to an assembly. We got to watch student performers sing, cheer, and a band play.
we made snowflakes.
We went up to the computer lab and did a winter project. It is now hanging on the bulletin board outside our pod. You can check out the project here.
we had indoor recess one day.
Mrs. Schwarm took down our “fall wall” and hung up a winter wonderland (with snowmen, gingerbread man, and gingerbread houses) for our “winter wall”
we are bringing all of our winter gear in from home to enjoy the snow outside. The students are doing an amazing job keeping their gear together and organized!
we learned about story elements (character, setting, problem and solution). We learned that when one (or more) of these things are different than the traditional fairytale, it becomes a fractured fairytale. We read three fractured Gingerbread books.
we learned about contractions like I’m and can’t
we learned about vowel teams and the sounds they make (ea in eat, oo in moon, ou house, and ee tree)
we learned why you don’t tap out siffix s! If a word ends in ck like sock and you add suffix s, you might write sox instead of socks if you tap out the suffix s.
we learned how to solve cross number puzzles. We are solving for sums and for missing addends.
we also solved addition story problems.
in writing workshop we learned about different types of teaching books. we learned about all about, how to, and making lists.
we learned how to make comparisons in our writing.
we learned about Hanukkah and read a few Hanukkah books.

Reminder:
12/19 - Ellie's 1/2 birthday (we will celebrate the 1/2 birthday of those students born in the summer)
12/21 - Winter Solstice
12/22 - last day of school before winter break

student teacher

Putting on winter gear!

sharing about Piggie

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December 08th, 2017

12/8/2017

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Our featured language this week is from Turkey.
Merhaba (hello)
Elvada (goodbye)

Current Trick Words: are, were
review trick words: do, does, from, have, the, a, and, is, his, of as, has, to, into, we, he, she, be, me, or, for, you, your, I, they, one, said, was

Poems of the week

This week in school...

Sasha shared about her weekend with Piggie. Sophia is taking PIggie home today! Have fun Sophia!
Mrs. Witcher was a guest readers! Thank you!
We started unit 6 in fundations. We are learning about basewords and suffix s. When you add suffix s to a word, the word goes from being singular to plural.
in Reading Workshop we learned that word detectives can break long words into smaller parts (syllables). Word detectives also pay special attention to the beginning of words.
We learned that two consonants together are called a consonant blend.
We made goals in writing workshop to help us become even stronger writers.
We started making a table of contents for our nonfiction chapter books.
we had a delayed opening
We had a math assessment for chapter 3 and started chapter 4.
we learned how to solve cross number puzzles in math!
we learned how to solve for a missing addend.
You need to have at least 2 pieces of information in order to solve a number sentence.
we went to the computer lab and learned about “the Hour of Code”
we went to a special assembly put on by the Tanglewood Marionettes (Thank you PTC!)
We made snowmen. We are changing our wall from fall to a winter wonderland.
we made gingerbread houses for out winter wall.
Mrs. Schwarm was out on Thursday and we had a guest teacher, Mrs. Benner.
we read a few traditional versions of the gingerbread man book. Next week, we will read some fractured versions of the gingerbread book.
Mrs. Carney joined us for morning meeting.

Important dates:
12/12 - First night of Hanukkah

Hour of Code

Tanglewood Marionettes

Guest Reader

Student Teacher

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Week in Review

12/1/2017

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Current Trick Words: do, does, from, have
review trick words: the, a, and, is, his, of as, has, to, into, we, he, she, be, me, or, for, you, your, I, they, one, said, was

Poems of the week

This week in school...

Ellie shared about her weekend with Gerald. Sasha is taking PIggie home today! Have fun Sasha!
We celebrated 2 birthday’s! Happy birthday Cynthia and Sasha!
Mrs. Zimplas and Katerina (Sophia’s sister) were guest readers!
We had two Fundation assessments this week! One on Monday for the bonus letters and one today for the glued sounds am and an (look for it in your child’s folder on Monday).
Students became the teacher during Fundations and led the class in the sound drills.
Mrs. Sullivan (3rd grade teacher) did two literacy activities with our class! One was about making sure our reading looked right, sounded right, and made sense. The other one was about making different words.
in Reading Workshop we learned that once you have learned a word, you don’t need to learn it again. Instead, read it in a snap!
we learned that readers scoop words to make their reading sound smooth.
we practiced skip counting by 2’s and 5’s
we counted collections of nickels and pennies.
we played two new math games (race for nickels and coin grab)
we changed the classroom calendar to December.
3 kids all lost a tooth on the same day.
students became teachers in fundations and did the sound card drills.
we learned that writers think about their readers and answer questions they might have when writing our non fiction teaching books.
we learned about how pictures are important for our nonfiction teaching books.
we read Strega Nona’s Harvest.