Buckaroo News for October 19 to October 23

The feedback I received in college for my writing was always that I was too wordy.  Turns out they were right as I reviewed the past couple of blogs.  For this reason, all future blogs will be short and sweet:)  

Questions for rich conversation:

Tell me three new things you've learned about bats.
What does the "cheese" mean in a story?
What is your word study team working on this week?
Tell me about your "small moment" story.
Tell me how the Eagle Eye strategy can help you when you're reading?  Can you show me how to use this strategy with one of your books?

Next week's related arts schedule:
Monday - Art
Tuesday - Music
Wednesday - Library ( remember book-in-a-bag books)
Thursday - P.E.  (remember tennis shoes

Upcoming events:
Thursday, October 29th - Harvest Party in the afternoon 
Friday, October 30th - No school for students
Thursday, November 5th - 50's Day to celebrate the 50th day of school!!!!!  
                                       Dress up like people living in the 50's!

We are learning about bats and we are trying to find the one that has the vanilla smell.  Bats can find their pups by their smell and cry.  We did this because bats can find their pups in a colony with millions of bats.

For word study, we are sorting long /i/ words and short /i/ words.  We are doing word study.  We are sorting the pictures and the words.  

We are telling our small moment stories using our arm.  You had to find a partner and tell them your story.  Touching your should means the beginning and the end is your wrist.  The "cheese" is in the middle.

Mrs. Baker was teaching us a new way to warm up our brains for math workshop.  We were listening to the Number Talk and we were trying to do math problems.  We have hand motions for when we know the answer, when we are thinking, how many strategies, and when we agree.

He is writing a lowercase /e/.  If you start your letters at the top, you could be a better reader.  

Every Friday, the children have time to work on a project of interest.  They begin by writing down some questions that they have about a particular topic and then they tell me what they need in order to answer the questions and create a project to teach others.  This is one student's list of questions as she begins to study about fossils.