Classroom News
Reading: Our new unit on community helpers
and community workers began this week.
We read several books and identified the main topic. Students used a graphic organizer to
note the main topic and also labeled pictures of community helpers from the
books we read. A great website
that we used this week is wegivebooks.org. Please check out this free resource at your leisure.
Math: Students
wrapped up Chapter 1. We spent
time manipulating addends to come up with the sums 8, 9 and 10 and also learned
how to add in any order. Students had
a summative assessment on Friday.
Writing: The writer’s
workshop has continued. Students
have had opportunities to review how to write a story and label pictures
associated with their small moment stories.
What We’re Learning Next
Week:
Reading: We will
continue our Community Helper theme for one more week. Students will focus their learning on
firefighters and police officers.
The main topic will be identified and students will learn to use
multiple labels with their illustrations.
Math: Subtraction Concepts (Chapter
2) will begin on Monday. This
chapter will teach students about comparison equations or problems with
language such as more than, fewer than and how many more.
Students will also learn about problems that take from. Take from problems involve situations
where a number of things are removed from a total group. Our final type of subtraction problem
is considered a take apart problem. Take apart problems involve situations in which there is a
whole group separated into 2 smaller groups.
Phonemic Awareness:
Short o
When there is only one vowel at the beginning or in the middle of a
word, the vowel usually stands for its short sound.
Ex. pot, rock
