Friday, January 23, 2015

Buckaroo News for January 20th-23rd

It was another short week full of great learning!  Here is a snapshot of what we did this week.  I have begun formerly assessing your child's reading progress.  It's amazing how far they've all come since the beginning of the year!  

In Word Study, we learned the importance of silent /e/ at the end of words.  We worked on the /ace/ family and the /ice/ family of words.  In Writer's Workshop, we have been doing an activity called "Four Corners."  Ask your child to share what this is.  It has been helping us to learn to share our opinions along with reasons to back up our opinions.  We've generated a pretty extensive list of possible topics in which to write letters sharing our opinions but all have been about our wants and needs.  Today, we talked about how our writing can persuade others about world issues and injustices.  Several shared how they felt about people and/or animals not having homes.  A few decided to take up this cause and began crafting letters expressing their opinions.  They are young but their words are mighty!  In science, we are continuing to learn all we can about penguins to prepare us for our penguin visit from the Columbus Zoo.  One child wants you to know that "Penguins find food."  We are soooooooo excited!  Ask your child to share at least three facts with you this weekend:).  In math, we took our post-assessment over tens and ones.  This was one of the most challenging concepts we've learned thus far.  Some of the children need more time and experience with this concept and we will be revisiting it.  Our next topic of study is comparing and ordering numbers to 100.  In Reader's Workshop, we are continuing to learn how to make meaningful connections.  We learned that there are four ways to connect to a story.  They are text-to-self, text-to-text, text-to-world, and text-to-media.  

I am scheduling conferences for the week of February 9th.  The 9th is already full but I still have times available 10th, 11th, and 12th.  Please let me know if you'd like to schedule a time.  

Monday is P.E.     Tuesday is Art     Wednesday is Music     Thursday is Library 
Friday is P.E. again
We got a 5 because we gave a lot of good compliments.  Our class worked really hard to get a 5.  If we get three 5's in a row then we will get a party of some kind.  This is our first 5 in P.E. and we are excited about getting three in a row.  
We read another book about Patricia Polacco called Thank You, Mr. Falker when she was younger. She didn't learn how to read until fifth grade.   In this one, she was in fifth grade.  In this story, Jody passed away because he grows too fast and his heart couldn't catch up.  He passed away when he was asleep.  They made a plane called the Junkyard Wonder for him.  They were making the plane take off for Jody because he named it.  They hoped it would make it to Heaven.  They launched it off of the school roof even though the principal said they couldn't at first.  They said it was for Jody.  

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