Snow Day!

Happy snow day!

I saved my post for Monday evening because I knew today would be a snow day.  Well I was hoping for spring but its looks like we are going to have a few more weeks of winter. 

I consider by blog "under construction" at this point.  I am having a hard time adding pictures and my background has disappeared.  Until I have my very tech savvy friend (Ms. Collins) check this out…I am out of luck!  Thank you for being so patient. 

This week…

·        We will not have a library book exchange

·        MSA testing for grades 3-5 (thankfully our schedule is not affected, however we will need to be especially quiet in the hallways)

·        Today was Read Across American Day…we will celebrate tomorrow.  Mrs. Jen is coming to school tomorrow morning to read us her favorite Dr. Seuss story.  Mrs. Goodman (Guidance counselor) will visit our classroom in the afternoon and read us a Dr. Seuss story!

·        Date to remember: book swap on March 12^th, every student will get to pick out a gently used book.  If you have any books to donate, please send them to school with your student.

·        Date to remember: April 3^rd is our tentative date for our Kindergarten Community Helper Day.  We spend half a day visiting other classrooms to learn about jobs that help our community.  This was a big success last year!

Sight Words: review sight words that we have taught so far. We will choose a game below to play each day!

Fiddlesticks Game-

To create the game, simply write words on the end of each stick with the black Sharpie marker.  Color the tip of one stick.  Place all the sticks word side down in the cup.  Players take turns choosing sticks and reading words.  The player who picks the colored-tip stick must put all their sticks back in the cup and play continues.  The player with the most sticks at the end of time wins the game.  

 

Sparkle-

Students stand up and get in a circle.  Teacher calls out a sight word, and each student says a letter in that word to spell it, until the word is finished.  After the word is done, the next student in the circle says, “SPARKLE!”, and then sits down.  Keep going with new sight words until all students but one are sitting.

 Poem: Goodbye and Hello

Reading:

Standard:  RL5 discuss characteristics of different genres of literary text (e.g., poetry, drama, nursery rhymes, traditional tales, fiction, and non-fiction.)

 

Questions: How can I tell if a book is real or make-believe? How do these pictures help me decide if this story is make-believe?

Lesson: Did you know that stories can be real or make-believe? Fiction stories are stories where the author uses his or her imagination to create the book. Use an example book like Go Dog Go. Model how you can use parts of the book to determine if it is a fiction story. Think aloud about how the dog is driving a car and that’s not something real dogs do. As you do a picture walk, think aloud about how what the dog is doing shows whether or not the story is fiction or nonfiction. Also notice how the dogs talk to each other in the story. Real dogs don’t do that. After a few pages of you demonstrating your thinking, continue the picture walk with the kids helping to look through the book and discuss what the dogs are doing, and how the pictures and the dialogue help you to decide whether the book is real or make-believe (fiction). Read the story.

-We will preview fiction and nonfiction books about animals

-How can we use the pictures to help us decide if this book is fiction or nonfiction?

-We will compare both books…can we learn about “cows” in the book Click, Clack, Moo?

Science:

We will continue to work on our science fair project!

Writing:

-We will continue writing about what we would do with a pot of gold?

-I will model “dialogue” in my writing

-We will connect this to text that we have read

-Students will practice finding dialogue in my writing examples

-Students will practice adding dialogue to their writing pieces

Math:

Standard: K.NBT.1 Compose and decompose numbers from 11 to 19 into ten ones and some further ones, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record each composition or decomposition by a drawing or equation (e.g., 18 = 10 + 8); understand that these numbers are composed of ten ones and one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, or nine ones.

This week we are working with place value.

Ask your student about…

-Making numbers with pretzels (tens) and marshmallows (ones)

-Using new math tools (tens and ones pieces made from green foam)

-Using double tens frames to make “teen numbers”

-Hot Coco and Marshmallow numbers

-Using the rekenreks we made earlier this year

 

Have a super week!  I hope we have school tomorrow!