Word Study
This week we
looked closely at word endings/spelling patterns. Students sorted words by these endings. The endings all included silent e. To read these words fluently students must be
able to look beyond the first letters of the word to solve it. In our discussions we stressed the importance
of our word study carrying over to our daily spelling.
Interactive Read Alouds
This week we
used a Frog and Toad story to continue our learning on
visualization. We are finding that if we
listen carefully for key words it helps us build our mental images. Partners are enjoying sharing the pictures
they’ve created in their minds with each other. We also revisited our Poppleton chapter
from last week and used a venn diagram to compare the story with Frog and
Toad.
To add to
our visualization unit we used a fun song called “The Princess Who Saved
Herself” by Jonathon Coulton. Students listened to this song (story) several
times and then illustrated part of the song.
We’ll be sharing this with families soon.
Reader’s Workshop
We are
beginning our study of dialogue. Your
child should be able to tell you what dialogue is and what types of books have
it. Students searched their books during
independent reading for examples of dialogue.
They also are learning about patterns of books that use dialogue. We used Cynthia Rylant books to compare how
authors choose to use or not to use dialogue in a book. It was interesting to see that her series Mr.
Putter and Tabby uses no or very
little dialogue in them while Henry and Mudge books seemed full of
dialogue. This study will continue for
several weeks.
Writer’s Workshop
Though we
haven’t yet completed our poetry unit, we took a brief break this week learning
about “how to” writing. We used making
grilled cheese sandwiches as a model for this type of writing. Then students brainstormed something they
were experts with and wrote their own “how to” pieces. Next, we asked students
to write a how to on something they had to guess about…how to cook a
turkey! We will be compiling this writing
for a class book to share in the new future.
Additionally,
our poets are working on choosing a poem to revise and edit for a class poetry
book. We will work more on this over the
next two weeks.
Math Workshop
Our unit 3
is now complete and we’re moving on to unit 4 working more with addition and
subtraction. We continued to work on
making change throughout the week as students will need many experiences to
better grasp the concept. We used number
stories with data charts to practice the change to more concept. Students are listening to determine the
outcome of a number story. Our
explorations this week included working with a thermometer (along with icy and
hot water cups), using attribute blocks to sort and play “what’s my rule”,
students also practiced stamping with coins and counting already stamped
coins. My students have come to expect
and look forward to our Friday explorations!
Today when I asked students to take out journals for math, 3 quickly
panicked and ran up to me asking why we weren’t doing explorations. Of course once I explained the explorations
and they realized they needed journal pages for some they were all smiles.
Social Studies
This week we
looked at both good and bad changes in a community. Ask your child about the story we read that
had significant changes called Letting Swift River Go.
Updates:
·
Thursday,
November 15th: NO SCHOOL, parent-teacher conferences
·
Friday,
November 16th: Pajama day at
Dublin! Please consider donating a new
pair of pajamas for a child in need. For
every pair of pajamas donated, Scholastic book club will donate a book for that
child as well. In addition all Dublin
students are invited to wear pajamas that day as well.
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