Friday, October 30th Newsletter

Reading Workshop

In reading workshop we had a week filled with spooky stories and creepy characters. We began the week with an introduction to our first story element, characters. Using four Halloween-themed stories as our mentor texts; Mortimer in Love, Boo!, No More Room on the Broom and Bonaparte Falls Apart, we used the characters’ actions, feelings and dialogue to identify character traits.  This work is the foundation for our upcoming unit on story elements and textual evidence.

Writing Workshop

Writing a complete sentence continued to be the focus of our instruction in writing workshop this week.  We learned about two parts of speech; vivid verbs and awesome adjectives. Using silly pictures as our inspiration, we identified the role of a verb and adjective in a sentence.  Then we isolated these words in our sentences to help us use them accurately.  We wrapped up our week with lessons on the importance of punctuation to end each sentence. 

Math

This week in math our instruction transitioned from telling math stories out loud to using tools like the number line to solve addition and subtraction problems. On Tuesday, we used a fun "birds in a tree" theme to practice solving a word problem with an illustration and a number sentence. This week we also used the number line as a tool for both addition and subtraction.

Classroom News

Our first Halloween celebration was a success! We had a blast enjoying the parade, celbrating in the classroom and enjoying our treats.  

With many families traveling next week, there will not be any assigned homework.