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| Mrs. Shore hiking with her kids and mine in Zion's National Park...Mrs. Graham is taking the picture!!! |
Housekeeping:
Monday, September 23, 2013: PLC early release.
Monday, September 23, 2013: PTA school CARNIVAL
Wednesday, September 24, 2013: PE
Wednesday, October 9, 2013: Picture Day
Language Arts:
This past week, Room #1 worked on a personal family adventure narrative story. On Monday, we told the kids what kind of story we wanted them to write. We wanted it to be an adventure they had with their family. We told them what we would be looking for in their paragraphs:
- A beginning, middle, and end
- Sentences with lots of detail
- More than 1 paragraph
- Stick to their story
- Good punctuation and capital letters
- Characters
- Setting
- A "catchy" beginning
After we gave them their "requirement" sheet, we turned them loose to see what they could do. We had a variety of stories. The first writing was just a practice writing. At the end of the year, we will write another narrative and compare it with the first to see if their is improvement. We hope there will be lots of improvement since we will be writing so much.
On Tuesday, we started writing again using a graphic organizer and detail map. We talked about catchy beginnings. We taught how to add detail in their sentences. We taught them about transitions from one paragraph to the next. We taught them how to describe their characters in detail.
On Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, we wrote.....wrote.....wrote. This coming Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, we are going to type our stories on the computer and save them. This will be an interesting adventure and hopefully this students will catch on quickly because we will be keyboarding a lot this year.
This week's spelling list focuses on short vowel sounds:
- pond
- luck
- lot
- drop
- does
- rub
- drum
- sock
- hunt
- crop
- shut
- won
The story of the week is The Ballad of Mulan by Song Nan Zhang. This story is a folktale, or a story that has been passed down from one generation to the next. Again, we will be answering guided questions from the text and adding them to our reading response journals.
At the end of this week, (September 27, 2013), the students need to be at 63% of their reading goal. Because of the late start, their goals are not big, but still enough to make them stretch. The AR Goal deadline is October 8, 2013.
Math:
After two weeks of fact fluency practice, we have started addition of multi-digit numbers using several strategies. We have taught several strategies to the students in hopes they will find one they like and be able to use it to their advantage. At the beginning of Math instruction, we practice different math strategies in their math response journals. We will continue with adding of multi-digit numbers for the next several weeks.
Science:
This past week we learned about features of the sun. We will learn about seasons this week and how the position of the sun effects how warm or cold, dark or light it is on the earth.
Please be patient on the Grade Book. We just learned how to utilize the new grading system and our waiting for the district to insert the "Learning Targets" into each grade level. Here is a heads up on the learning targets for Language Arts and Math.
Language Arts:
- I can accurately and fluently read on-level ext using my knowledge of phonics, word clues, and decoding skills.
- I can use conventional spelling for high-frequency and other studied words and for adding suffixes to base words.
- I can write sentences using capitals and correct punctuation.
- I can write a 3-star sentence using nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs and conjunctions.
- I can identify the main idea and its supporting details.
- I can write a narrative about a topic and support it with details.
- I can complete a graphic organizer about the characters, setting, plot, problem and solution in my personal adventure story.
Math:
- I can round numbers to the nearest ten.
- I can round numbers to the nearest hundred.
- I can multiply a one digit number by a multiple of ten.
- I can fluently add numbers within 1,000.
- I can fluently subtract numbers within 1,000.
- I can add or subtract using strategies based on place value.
- I can solve problems using the inverse operation for addition or subtraction.
Just for students!!!!
**Write a 3 star sentence about a turtle. Turtle is the noun, you need to come up with a verb, adjective, and adverb.
**This is a short informational text about Spiders. Identify the main idea and give me three supporting details:
Have you ever been frightened by a spider? Sometimes even the little
ones look a bit creepy crawling around. But what about BIG, HAIRY spiders?
Now those can be really scary! But even the most frightening looking ones –
tarantulas – aren’t as harmful as you might think.
There are three main kinds of tarantulas: bird spiders, funnel-web
spiders, and trap-door spiders. The bird spider, which lives in South
America, is very large. Its body can be as long as three and one half inches.
When it spreads its legs, it is large enough to cover a dinner plate! It is
called a bird spider because it lives in trees and eats small birds. The diets
of some bird spiders include small amphibians and reptiles.
The tarantula’s poisonous bite helps it kill insects and other small
animals for food. The bite of some kinds of tarantulas can make humans
very sick. Most of these dangerous spiders – like the funnel-web spider –
live in other parts of the world. Tarantulas that live in the United States
are far less harmful to humans. If you were bitten by one of these spiders
it would not be pleasant, but it would only be about as serious as being stung
by a bee. That’s right – in spite of what you see on TV or in the movies,
people rarely die from a tarantula bite.
