"Peek at the Week" October 8-12

I think the cold weather is 'officially' here!  Thank you for remember to send your children to school with cold weather gear!

Reader's Workshop

For the next few weeks we will be focusing on tools readers use to figure out unknown words.  This week we focused on three 'tools':

1.  Look at the picture.

2.  Look at the beginning and ending sounds.

3.  Does it make sense?

Do you see the sticky notes?  These are words we found during Read-to-Self that required us to use a reading tool to figure out!  Look how smart we are!

Ms. Havig modeled these tools while she read to the class.  On Friday she covered up words in a fun story called Scaredy-Cat, Splat! There were many words in this book that we could READ, but we had to think about what they meant by thinking what makes sense?

Writer's Workshop

We continued our focus on Small Moments.  We were given a writing partner this week to brainstorm and share ideas with.  We learned that writers often get tips, suggestions, and ideas from working with other writers.  

Math

We focused on telling time to the hour and adding with dominoes this week. Most of us had a really good understanding of finding the time to the hour from K5.  We also practiced finding the time to the half hour.  We have added telling time to our calendar routine so we can practice this skill each day.  

During domino addition we began practicing using an addition number sentence.  As an added challenge we ordered our dominoes from least to greatest!

 

Science

This week we revisited thermometers.  We know thermometers are tools to measure temperature.  We took the temperature inside and outside using real thermometers! 

  

 Field Trip

We went to the Milwaukee Art Museum on Thursday.  We were encouraged to look for paintings, or parts of paintings that represented each letter of the alphabet!  When we came back, we made a class big big called A is for Art!

All tuckered out!! 

 Star of the Week

 Star of the week began this week!  We really enjoy learning about one another!  When you are the star of the week you fill out a book called Read All About Me, bring pictures to hang on our star board, and share your favorite book!  At the end of the week we make a special book for the 'star' to bring home!

 

Have a fabulous weekend!
Love, Ms. Havig