By: The Multi 1-2 Langeliero's and MB's Kiddos November 2023- February 2024 Published By: Whole Groups, Small Groups and Individuals March - April 2024
The students have created grammar folders to house their work with parts of speech and types of words: Nouns, Proper Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs, Antonyms, Synonyms, Homonyms, Contractions and Possessive Nouns, Pronouns, and Compound Words!
April and March 2024
Sorry for the major delay in posting! The Clason household was without internet and cable from April 4th to May 5th AHHHHHHH!!!! Finally catching up with some pics highlighting some of our classroom work over the past few months.
So proud of everyone who submitted a piece of their writing to the Literary Achievement Awards this year! Congratulations Tiernan, Dominic, Delilah, Lydia, Connor R., Evie, and Grady!!!
Idea Jars! Word Collectors! Silent 10 Writing- Getting Ready for Write with Someone
After reading the book The Idea Jar, students created paper idea jars to help them with ideas for their personal writing! Students created mini dictionaries for housing words to use in their writing. Both classes designed a new Daily 5 choice- Write with Someone. We completed the Independence chart and will be starting soon!
Daily 5 Still a Fav!
We completed an Independence Chart for Write with Someone. This is a pretty big deal, as we had to come up with most of the expectations. So Write with Someone will be a new choice during Daily 5 time.
Many thanks to the WES PTSA for funding our new fluency kits! One of our favorite ways to orthographically map words is to use our magnetic discs, wands, and sound cards.
Thank you Ms. Brady for organizing and taking us to the Giraffes Can't Dance show. No photos were allowed during the show, but trust us haha, it was a beautiful and fun show.
The students have begun a study of things which give our writing power! The study focuses on grammar and writing mechanics, and a look into what makes our writing easier and exciting for the reader to read. First a model sentence is presented. The students share what they observe about the sentence. Then a specific focus is introduced. We compare and contrast sentences. Then students have the chance to try it out and write their own sentences, with emphasis on the focus of the day. So far we have worked with the following patterns of power: Sentence structure: a subject and verb or predicate, nouns, using capital letters at the beginning of sentences and for proper nouns or names, and action verbs. The verb model sentence brought in 31 total observations about the sentence including all the verbs, the fact that the sentence was about two nouns MB loves, Mac and Kodiak, and that the word wrestle has three silent letters including the silent e in the consonant -le syllable at the end...WOW!
Vowel Teams which include double vowel teams, digraphs and diphthongs, were all included in the last syllable type in our many months long study. We focused on the most popular, the most frequently used vowel teams, as we hunted through good fit books in search of ai, ay, ea, ee, igh, ie, oa, ou, ue, and ew long vowel sounds and spelling patterns. We have begun sentence dictation and word mapping which include the popular long vowel teams.
Right after morning meeting the fluency friends have been heading to Mrs. Langelier or MB's classroom and have been working on orthographically mapping words and working on their decoding and encoding fluency. We have used pop it bracelets, mapping boards with sound boxes, white boards, and mapping papers, and games. Fluency Ninjas have been working on math fact fluency using the amazing online tool, 99 Math! A paper with a sign in code and explanation of ways to practice math fact fluency at home with 99 Math, was sent home the week before vacation. Let Mrs. Langelier know if your math ninja needs another copy. The link is found on the student link page.
Click on the doc below to read the success criteria we have written to become even better writers, illustrators, and communicators than we already are!
Thank you so much for sharing your family traditions with all of us! Check out the finished product and the student inspired watercolor paintings from a Native American first Thanksgiving book.
Check out photos and videos of us in action, and making our learning happen! Click on the album to the right. Check back each week for new pics and videos of our amazingness haha!