October 2nd-6th

This week was crazy fast with lots of learning! I apologize I didn't post yesterday. I pretty much collapsed after the game last night. I loved seeing lots of my friends at the game last night. It was so fun, but man the kids wore me out. I can't believe how much energy they still have after a day and week of school.

This week we started our week by finishing our witch Fairy Tale. This writing project took some time, but I was really impressed by how well this writing piece turned out. I plan to display the Fairy Tales in the hallway so they won't get sent home for a few weeks. Sorry! They are too good not to display:)

Since our theme was food this week, I read aloud a few versions of Stone Soup to the students. The kids really enjoyed hearing the different stories and comparing and contrasting them. We also focused on identifiying together the story elements of Ann McGovern's version of Stone Soup. The students applied their knowledge of story elements to their journeys story,  A Cupcake Party. After reading the story independently they recalled the characters, setting, problem, and solution by making their own story structure book. In addition to story elements, we reviewed the sequence of events in a story by completing a retell activity that went along with our read aloud. The kids taught their neighbors the order of ingredients that were added to make Stone Soup, and then together as a class we made our own Stone Soup. Yesterday, we wrote a narrative about our experience with making Stone Soup, and at the end of the day we ate our Stone Soup. Many of the kids did not like the soup as much as they thought they would, but they really enjoyed getting to make it. 

We spent time this week reviewing our short vowel sounds by doing picture sorts, word sorts, and a flap book. In our flap book we practiced writing various word families and then finding words that rhyme and fit into various word families. We even learned a cheer that goes along with each vowel. 

 

We finished our unit of addition numbers 1-10  and took our unit test today. We will begin subtraction numbers 1-10 on Monday. I will still be giving addition timed tests for the next few weeks so keep practicing those facts at home. I ended up not giving a timed test today since we had our unit test.

 

Thursday was our PBS assembly. Congrats to Kallen for being our student of the month for Cooperation and Matthew for receiving our Reading award. The new word for the month of October is Responsibility.