Wednesday, September 12, 2012

The Week So Far...

Whew!

Hello everybody, this week has been very busy as we have started diving more fully into our curriculum. Students have been hard at work in math, writing the numbers 1-10, composing and decomposing numbers 1-20, and doing exploratory workshops in odd and even numbers.

In writing we have been reflecting and discovering the stories we have within ourselves to share. Today  we read Ish by Peter Reynolds and explored in our journals what our own "ish" talents and passions were. We we're very lucky today to be invited to Mr. Grace's 5/6 classroom to watch a live presentation of Peter Reynolds reading The Dot and sharing where his inspiration comes from.

In reading, students have begun filling and rotating their book bins from our classroom library. Students have also been given a couple of beginning sight word books. I have been rotating throughout the room to read these with students both individually and in small groups. We are still focusing on the use of illustration to tell a story, however since sight word work has begun we are practicing recognizing those words when we see them in our books.

I have sent home a sight word list tonight, this is identical to a list I am introducing tomorrow. Feel free to hang this on the fridge or begin going through these words in down time to help prime and build our reading!


I apologize in advance for the lack of photos this week, my camera has been having some import issues. Next week I will have this figured out, in the mean time I have included two images from our number writing work earlier in the week.

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