Weekly News 10-15-13

Friday Highlights

Mrs. Smith’s 1-2’s                                               Week of 10/15/13

Reading: This week I introduced the comprehension strategy of visualizing. We used the author’s words to see, hear, feel, taste and (sometimes) smell the story! Students used their reader’s notebooks to draw what they were visualizing. We also started a new read aloud, Lulu and the Brontosaurus.

Fundations: We continued to review glued sounds -am, -an and the pattern for buddy letters; f,l, and s. Level 2 students reviewed glued sounds -ang, -ing, -ong,-ung,-ank, -ink, -onk, -unk. During Daily 5 Word Work routines students use their trick word lists and unit words for practice.

Math: First grade Students worked on geometry including learning the names for hexagon, rhombus and trapezoid and tried to fill shapes using fewer and more in a shape. Second grade We practiced reading, writing and representing with expanded notation 3 digit numbers. We also worked on geometry with 2 and 3 dimensional shapes.  We also practiced doubles and subtraction facts.

Writing: This week we dug deeper into the writing of Jane Yolen in her beautiful small moment narrative, Owl Moon. We looked for parts of the text that were powerful and discussed why it was powerful and how Jane Yolen made it powerful. We tried out some of her craft in our own pieces.

Science/Social Studies: Students completed their magnet investigations and wrote up their work using the sentences starters; I think___________because and I wonder_____________.

Literature: A Particular Cow, Night Noises by  Mem Fox      “Five Little Owls” poem Weekly News “Bats”              New read aloud; Lulu and the Brontosaurus by Judith Viorst

Notices: We had a great time at Grenier’s on Thursday Pumpkins will come home next week.

Have a Great Weekend! :) Jo-Anne Smith jsmith@wwsu.org 802-310-0824