This week the children brought home their booktime folders for the first time! These books are at each students "just right" or independent reading level. Booktime books are opportunities for your child to read familiar stories to you. Each week there will be two books in your child's folder for them to read at home. These books are books that they should be able to read with independence and feel confident reading them. The importance of these books is to build fluency and develop independent reading strategies. Each Monday these folders will come home and the children will have two nights to read them. The book folders are to come back to school each Wednesday. The other important aspect of these folders is to develop independence and responsibility of bringing the material to and from school. Please guide you child to develop these skills through the booktime folders.
Writers workshop
We spent a lot of time this month working to bring our small moment stories to life. Through modeling and practice we learned to unfreeze our characters to make them move and make them talk with either speech bubbles or quotation marks. We have also looked at our mentor text The Night of the Veggie Monster and learned how to tell our stories in itsy bitsy steps. We also learned how to bring feelings out in our characters. These stories are so fun to read!
Math
We continued to work on our strategies that help us when adding and subtracting. We learned all the different combinations using our bear counters and a cave. We worked on our doubles and near doubles facts. We modeled what a double is and learned how knowing our doubles helps us to know a doubles plus 1 or 2. We played various games to learn these facts so we know them in a snap!
Science
We are working on a science unit focused on plants. We have each planted our own lawn which consists of ryegrass and alfalfa. We have observed these seeds growing and even mowed our lawns to see what happens when you mow it. We are now in the process of watching wheat seeds grow. We each planted a wheat seed in a straw and we can closely see how this seed grows right down to the roots! we are observing to see what happens to these seeds and recording the changes. This week we will be going on a walk to observe and collect leaf samples from outside our school.
And the finale to our month...some great costumes and a fabulous party! Thank you to our moms that organized this!
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