“Anticipating problems and figuring out how to solve them is actually the opposite of worrying: it’s productive.” - Chris Hadfield, “An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth” IMPORTANT INFORMATION Milk Program Milk Forms are due. First delivery is October 10th. School Fee Form School Form Fee Agreement Forms are due. Our Schedule Music is on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Library is on Wednesdays. 2 books can be taken out (2 at any given time), and they are due 2 weeks after checkout. We do not give due date slips, as to save our beautiful trees. IMPORTANT DATES September 21 & 22: Meet the Teacher Conferences September 21 & 22: Scholastic Book Fair September 29: Orange Shirt Day October 6: Terry Fox Run OUR DAY 13 days under our belt, 167 days to go! We started the day strong, as in STRONG VERBS. We read Don’t Fidget a Feather and pulled out the descriptive verbs and made a list. We now have two solid lists, and next week, we will do a sorting activity with them. We also created a KWL chart for Rocks and Minerals. A KWL chart is a double-T chart, and stands for What I Know, What I Wonder, and What I Learned. We filled in the Know and Wonder columns, and we will address the chart throughout our learning process, adding more to the Wonder and then Learned column. Last week, I gave the students a diagnostic math assessment. I am in the process of marking and analyzing them. This will help guide me in creating Guided Math Stations and lesson plans. Today, I gave the students another copy of the assessment, and we went over the first section. The word problem was: I went over the problem with the students. We discussed what pictures means (T-charts, Base-10 representations, circles/squares for groupings, as opposed to drawing 86 tiny cows), how numbers are integrated in the drawings, showing the work (even if it is mental math), and then answering the problem in a sentence. We also discussed units of measurement, and the C.U.B.E.S strategy. This was a guided lesson. At the end of this lesson, I had the students reflect on what they learned, and had them write it on their sheet. Written reflections (math, science, writing, social, …) will happen frequently during our year.
In the afternoon, we learned another Math Game, Race to 100. Pairs of students play. They roll a dice, and add that amount to the pervious total on the same hundred-chart. The winner is the one who gets to 100 first. A variation of this game is each student gets one chart and they play adding on individual charts, with the first arriving at 100 wins. After gym (a rousing game of Paparazzi - ask you child to describe the game), students were going to work on Rights/Needs and Wants, except we received a delivery of a Class Pet - a wonky looking blue stuffy with three eyes, long arms, and wee legs. Apparently he has been seen around the classroom. Perhaps he has been inspired by Elf on the Shelf. The Class Pet (he is yet unnamed) will come home with one student on the weekends. Students will be expected to write in the journal about what they did. Full instructions and activity suggestions are in the journal. I did talk with the students about protecting the Class Pet from becoming a chew toy for their Home Pets. I look forward to meeting and seeing you all at Meet the Teacher Conferences. For the children of Room 18, REST UP! We have another exciting week coming up! Cheerios! Ms Lauf Comments are closed.
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