Treasures:
This week, the children worked with ending blends(nd, st, nt, nk). They enjoyed a sorting activity called, “Stop Those Silly Blends.” The children had to place soccer balls (with words containing blend endings) into the correct net (labeled with one of the four blends).
We continued our work with Author’s Purpose this week. The children listened to books about wind and determined if the author wrote the book to persuade, inform, or entertain. They had to support their reasoning with evidence from the text. The children filled out a graphic organizer and shared their evidence with the class.
Super Sentences:
On Friday, the children turned into super sentence heroes! Each child created their own super sentence hero mask. Using their graphic organizers from earlier in the week, they chose one telling, asking, and exciting sentence to glue onto their mask. The children had a lot of fun with this activity and enjoyed sharing their sentences with one another.
Grammar Packets:
The children continued to work with writing sentences in our grammar packet this week. They had to proofread sentences and check for capitals at the beginning and to make sure that each sentence had a special end mark (period, question mark, or exclamation mark). They even had to unscramble a few sentences and write them in the correct word order.
Guided Reading:
I have almost had time to meet with all of my readers one on one. I will finish up running records this week and then guided reading groups will resume. I am so proud of how hard our 1-1 readers have been working, it shows in their growing instructional reading levels!
Math
In Math, the children worked with telling time to the hour and half hour on their tool kit clocks. They also took turns telling and recording a variety of different times. The children were also introduced to frames and arrows. They had to fill in the missing numbers based on a given rule. Later in the week, they had to identify the rule based on the numbers in the frames. The children also had a chance to create their own frames and arrows problems, they traded with a partner and completed the others problems by identifying the rule and filling in the missing numbers. On Friday, the children worked with their calculators. They practiced reading and entering numbers and symbols on the calculator. They programed their calculators to count forward and backward by counts of 2s, 3s, 5s, and 10s from a given number.
Science
This week, we wrapped up our Weather Unit. The scientists watched a short video about the different tools that meteorologists use to measure the wind strength and speed. Then, they took their own wind tool, a wind sock outside to test the wind strength and speed. They were excited to use the wind scale to help them determine the strength and speed of the wind. While they were outside, the scientists noted that the wind strength ranged from gentle to moderate. They also observed the wind direction by looking at the trees, flag, and their wind socks.
We also completed our class Weather RAN graphic organizer. The scientists looked at our What We Think We Know notes and moved them to the correct column: We Were Right or Misconceptions. The scientists also added additional notes to the New Information column. Lastly, we took a look at our Wonderings. The scientists answered the questions they had learned the answers to during our unit. They left up the ones that they would like to research further.
Next week, the scientists will enjoy a visit from HighTouch HighTech. A scientist will bring in a variety of weather experiments for the scientists to engage in. Check back next week for our post and pictures!
Halloween Fun!
The children had a wonderful fun filled Halloween day! In the morning, each child completed a Halloween writing titled, Who Is Hiding Behind the Mask? They turned a graphic organizer they had filled out earlier in the week, into a written paragraph about themselves. To go along with their writing, they made a portrait of themselves wearing a mask. Their name is hidden at the bottom of the page allowing everyone to make a guess at who the writing is describing. You just lift the black flap to see if your guess is correct!
In the afternoon, the children kicked off the Halloween festivities with a parade around the school. Thank you to everyone for coming out! After the parade, we headed back to our classroom for our Halloween party. The children enjoyed some delicious treats, made two crafts, played a pumpkin bean bag toss game, and listened to a Halloween story. Thank you to everyone who sent in supplies for our party: treats, drinks, paper goods, and crafts! A very big thank you to our three party volunteers, Mrs. Wilkin, Mrs. Wilt, and Mrs. Picicco! Thank you for your incredible job planning and running our party. The children had a great time!
Star Student
Filip was our star student this week. Thanks Filip for sharing all about you!
Royal Reader
A special thank you to Filip’s Aunt, she joined us this week as our Royal Reader. The children loved listening to the two stories that Ms. Sowa read, The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything and Pete The Cat Pete At The Beach.
Notes:
-Thursday, November 7th is picture retakes. If you would like your child to have their picture retaken, please return your child’s entire picture packet (with the exception that you can keep the class photo).
-The Student Council is sponsoring a food drive to benefit SERVPRO of Arlington Heights. They are collecting canned goods, paper products and other non-perishable food items. If you would like to donate, please have your child bring in an item before November 15. Thank you!
Have a great rest of the weekend!
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