9/2/2018 0 Comments The Cahill Chronicles Vol. 2Welcome to the second full week of school! We are off to an amazing start in our classroom. We have many routines and procedures mastered and my students have loved learning all our new "chants" and "attention getters". Our favorite one is I say "Peanut Butter" and they respond "Jelly time!" :) *Reminders* BEE Book- Please make sure these folders come to school each and every day. The reading calendar should be filled out and initialed by a parent each night. 15 minutes is required of each student, however reading more than that is even better!! :) SEE SAW- Please make sure you and your child is connected to this app. I only have 13/20 students connected. It was on a paper passed out at Lemonade Social. If you need information on how to login in, please send me an email. :) Wish List and Donor's Choose STEM project- Thank you SO much for all the donated items from our amazon wish list and some donations to our Donor's Choose STEM project. Feel free to check either of them out. I greatly appreciate it very much! :) Amazon: http://a.co/bKx1zbQ Donor's Choose: https://www.donorschoose.org/project/stem-resources-for-the-win/3511132/ What Are We Learning? Reading: We will continue going through our Reader's Workshop procedures this week. We will also continue learning some daily 5 stations including read to someone and word work. We are working hard on building our reading stamina during read to self. This is the most important piece of the daily 5 rotations as they learn to build their stamina for reading and using 'just right books' to help! We will be focusing on making predictions this week in the mini lessons. My students will also learn about nouns this week with various subjects. Writing: We will be starting our first story this week. We will continue to learn procedures of Writer's Workshop especially how and where to get supplies. This week they will learn how to gather ideas for writing by brainstorming and learning to sketch across pages (beginning, middle, end). I'm excited to see them become great writers. :) Math: We have officially started numbers talks and they are going so well. Numbers talks are about 5-10 minutes 3 times a week where students have something to solve. I ask them to share their thinking and what strategy they used (or explain as best they can) to solve it. It is not looking at making sure the answer is right as much as looking at various ways to solve it. We write them out on the smart board and share our thinking together. This week we will be working on number sense up to 120. They will be using a 120 chart and recognizing numbers from 1-120 and skip counting by 10's and 5's. Science: We will continue with "What are Scientists?" unit by exploring our five senses and their properties. Specials for the Week: Tuesday- Music Wednesday- Art Thursday- P.E. Friday- Music Wednesday at 12:00- Library check out Have a wonderful week!! :) Ms. Cahill |
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