During morning work time, I often put out math manipulatives for the children to explore! I am often surprised by their thinking! One group of kids took all of the "bears" and tried to make a pattern creation. Patterning is such an important skill. It is a precursor skill for reading and mathematics. So whenever I see this happening, I make a BIG deal about it and have the kids explain their thinking. Another group was using the stacking cubes to begin thinking about height. They were trying to make the cubes as tall as Mrs. McDonald, which was fun to see them working together to decide if it was the right height or not. AND THEN...they laid the cubes out on the floor and counted. I love to see mathematicians HARD at WORK! Every day, I am surprised by their thinking!
POPCORN WORDS: A new list will go home with your child. We will have a couple more weeks of new words and then we will start again - but this time with a focus on READING and and using the words in their WRITING correctly!
Reading Workshop
We have been learning strategies for reading pattern books during reader's workshop. This week we will continue learning strategies, but the emphasis will be on what do you do when you come to a word that you don't know. Book Bags will be coming home this week at least twice! I am so excited to get back to our normal reading groups! The assessments are complete and we are ready to roll!
WLE Talent Show: The highlight of the week was the WLE Talent Show on Friday. The kids were amazed by the older kids and their talents. I am pretty sure they left thinking that Harrison and Brennan are in fact MAGICAL. I have included a link to the Talent Show acts in case you want to check them out:
100's Day Shirts are DUE TOMORROW!!! I LOVE the ones that have been turned in already! I can't wait to make mine! My daughters are going to help me:)
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