Tuesday, September 15, 2009

What have we been up to lately?  Well...

In reading we've been learning about how sequencing and predicting stories makes us become better readers.  We started recording our leveled books on our book logs and evaluating how they made us feel as readers.  We made 'shape-go-maps' to help sequence stories.  Be sure to read and log books at home too!

In writing we've been discussing where authors get ideas for their stories.  We've been sharing lots of experiences that make excellent stories.  We have the opportunity to work on new pieces or continue working on pieces that we've already started but still need to work on.  

In math we have been working on copying images and building images with cubes.  For calendar math we've been working making word problems from combinations of five, adding to our weather graph, keeping a tally of how many days we've been in school and learning how to read a calendar.  

In science we've been weighing items and recording which item weighs more and which items weighs less.  

Whew...We sure are busy in room 14!

Friday, September 4, 2009

Skills Block:  Today we had our first spelling test.
Reading Workshop:  Today we read with a partner.
Writing Workshop:  Today we talked with a partner about how to fix our papers.
Math Workshop:  Today was choice day.  We played peas and carrots, compare, double compare, and staircases.
Computer time: We played a game about finding long vowel sounds.