Week of Jan. 7

Upcoming Events:

J Jan. 16 2 hr. early out

Notes:

J We have started to get some of our Travel Teddy’s back!  So far we have received Teddy’s from: Cherokee, Iowa; Carol, Iowa; Arizona; Ellsworth, Minnesota; Forest City, Iowa; and Orange City, Iowa. 

J Word Work activities this week included: typing out our words, making words with tiles with 2 letters and more, drawing a picture with our words hidden in the picture, and rainbow words with markers.

J We have started self-editing our journal writing.  Students will be checking their work for: capitalizing the word I, starting their sentence with a capital letter, using punctuation at the end of the sentence, writing neatly, and spelling word wall words correctly.

Things to Work on:

JWork on using schema to make connections when reading. (This reminds me of…)    

What we have been up to:

Reading: This week we focused on –ike, -ide, and –ine.  We spent times this week working on building our predicting skills.  This week we read a reader’s theater called “Smile, Mike!”  Reader’s theater is a good time to work on building fluency by reading something again and again. 

Math: This week in math we started working on test taking skills with math skills.  The test taking clues that we worked on were: If you are not sure which answer is correct, take your best guess.  Be sure the space you mark is for the answer you think is correct. Sometimes it helps to say the pattern to yourself before making a choice.  This week we started a new math unit on constructing picture graphs.  We worked on comparing the two items and knowing how many more/ fewer one has than the other.

Science/ Social Studies: We started a new social studies unit on our country.  This week we talked about George Washington and the Pledge of Allegiance.  We learned about several vocabulary words: settler, colony, freedom, flag, and pledge.