Week 3 (September 1 - 5)

Week 3 (September 1 -5)           

We’ve had yet another great week of school! Students were so excited to have their pictures taken on Friday; they were all smiles for the camera!

Surprise Visitors

We’ve had two visitors in our classroom this week. Camia, Seiease’s mom came to sit in on our class earlier this week and Mrs. Griggs also came to visit. Many of you know Mrs. Griggs from first grade because your child was in her class or because you’ve seen her around. Well, on Thursday she came to visit our classroom and read the children a wonderful read aloud entitled, How to Lose All Your Friends by Nancy Carlson. All the kids enjoyed both the book and her presence in the class!

Reading

This week we have been working on building our stamina for reading. We’ve discussed “just right books”, good reading habits, and different reading techniques. Below is the “what to do while reading” list that the class came up with. They really had some good ideas.

We’ve also exchanged our previous library books for a new set. This time students checked out two books and they have a huge zip lock back to keep them in. Hopefully this will make it easier for students to keep up with the books. This week they will also be going to the media center where they will be allowed to check out books as well.

Writing

We’ve been working really hard on our acrostic poems and we hope to finish them up this coming week. Poetry can sometimes be a hard concept to understand, but acrostic poems are very fun and the kids have had a great time trying to figure out what they would like to do for their name. One of the students said, “It is like trying to figure out a puzzle!” They also had a good time helping me create one for my name as well. We created this one as a class and I must say…I’m impressed!

We have not yet started our E.L.A. workshop but we have been going through the motions of switching for small group stations. The students are working very well together and I’m very proud of how well they have assisted each other with the different activities.

This Week

This week we will be working on more addition strategies, narrative writing, and creating our community booklets.  MAP testing will be this coming Tuesday and Thursday. ELA MAP testing will be on Tuesday and Math will be on Monday. I’m looking forward to another great week!!!