"Peek at the Week" September 24-28

Thank you to EVERYONE for coming to open house this Thursday!  It was so fun to see all the excitement in the classroom.  Here is a look into our classroom this week:

Reader's Workshop

Our focus this week was that readers have books they love.  Dr. Westfahl came into our classroom on Monday and talked about reading tastes.

This is a book Dr. Westfahl WROTE! Even though he wrote it, he does not enjoy reading it!

Dr. Westfahl LOVES Knuffle Bunny!  Our class did such a great listening job that he was able to share all 3 books!

He even let our class borrow them so we could all enjoy them!

 On Tuesday Ms. Havig shared two of her favorite books:

 

On Thursday we all brought in our favorite books! 

When we find books we love it makes reading so much fun! Many students wanted to bring in more than one book because they enjoy so many :)  It might be fun for your child to keep a special box or shelf full of books they love!

We also built our Read-to-Self stamina to 24 minutes and our Read-to-Friend stamina to 14 minutes!!! WHOO-HOO!

Word Work

We learned 8 new popcorn words this week:

so

we

like

go

to

is

it

my

We added these words to our popcorn word wall, which means we are now expected to spell them correctly when we write!  We also had some fun practicing our words with wiki sticks, play dough, magnetic letters and white boards.  

Writer's Workshop

This week we looked at a well know children's story- Corduroy!  

 

Don Freeman uses very detailed pictures to help tell his story.  We used this idea in our own writing.  The more detail we add to our pictures, the more we can write about!  We will be wrapping up our launching unit early next week and beginning Small Moments later next week!

 Math

We wrapped up Unit 1 this week and took our very first math test!!  I will be sharing these with you at conferences at the end of the month.  Our last lesson this unit was on problem solving.  Here is a peek at what we explored:

 Science

We continued our study on weather this week.  We learned that scientists use their senses to observe the weather around them.  We went outside and used our sense of sight, smell, touch, and hearing to observe the weather. (We discussed how we do NOT use our sense of taste in Science.)

Just For Fun

Here are some 'bonus' pictures from the week!

Wow..what a busy, busy week!! Don't forget, next Wednesday is picture day at Stormonth!  Please remember to return picture forms by that day!

Have a great weekend :)
Love,
Ms. Havig