"Peek at the week" October 20-24 & 27-31

Here is a peek into our past 2 weeks!

Math Workshop

We wrapped up unit 2 this week! Your child should bring his/her assessment home on Monday.

We continued solving subtraction story problems by making a proof drawing and equation. We learned that it is important to be able to prove your thinking when solving story problems. 

We then began focusing on related equations. We explored the relationship between addition and subtraction facts. 

 

Reader's Workshop

We continued our focus on word detectives. We added new strategies to our chart to help us figure out tricky words:

Is it a word wall word?

Does it look like another word you know?

Look for chunks you know.

Skip the word and go back.

Re-read. Go back and try another startegy. 

We also added another piece to our readers workshop- listen to reading! Wecan listen to stories on the iPod and on the computer.

 

Word Work

This week we added 5 new words to our word wall:

But

All

Not

Over

What

We also learned two new ways to practice our words- word wall equations and vowel/consonant writing!

Halloween 

We had a fun day together on Friday! First, we made a retelling project for the book Big Pumpkin. 

 

Next, we mad a fun treat called Frankenpudding!

Forst, we drew Frankenstein faces on a clear cup. 

Then we added vanilla pudding.

Next, we stirred on green food coloring to make the pudding green!

The last step was to smash up Oreo cookies to add to the pudding!

We loved this yummy treat!

We had so much fun dressing up for the costume parade!!  I had some very photogenic first graders that kept begging for more pictures...so here you go!!

I hope you had a fabulous weekend!

Love,

Mrs. Hogue