News From Mrs. Straw

Upcoming Events

-Nov. 27 1 Hour Early Out

-Nov. 28 and 29 No School, Thanksgiving

-Nov. 22 Book orders due

What’s Happening in BUILD:

B (Buddy Games)- Domino Addition

U (Using Manipulatives)- Geometric shapes

I (Indpendently Working)- Egg carton addition.  Students shake two beans in an egg carton and add the two numbers.

L (Learning with Numbers)- Problem solving by comparing numbers.

D-(Doing Math)- Scootpad on laptops

Notes:

-Here are a few ideas to encourage writing at home:

          -Write letters and cards to family

members and friends, and

encourage them to write back!

-Encourage your child to write stories about their favorite things.

-Keep a journal of holiday activities.

-Read comics in the newspaper and let your child create their own.

What’s Happening in Daily 5:

*Listen to Reading (Bookflix)

*Read to Self (Poem: “5 Little Turkeys” and “November”)

*Read to Someone

*Work on Writing (Thanksgiving paper)

*Word Work

        -Smartboard (practiced sh and th)

-Ipad

-Compound words (students put two

words together and wrote the new compound word)

-Coffee Filters (students wrote

words with markers then sprayed the coffee filter to make a piece of art)

          -Word Family Puzzles

          -Paint words with cotton balls

Week in Review:

- This week Mrs. Patton came to our class and talked with us about animal habitats. 

-We have been practicing a reader’s theater on Thanksgiving to present to the third graders.  This is helping us build our fluency skills.  Fluency is known as automaticity, it refers to the person’s ability to read words in a text.  Fluency is also the speed at which a person reads as well as reading with feeling.