Week 5
What a fun, energetic, and
cooperative week we’ve had. Filled with songs, dancing, and collaborating.
“Music
speaks what cannot be expressed, soothes the mind and gives it rest; heals the
heart and makes it whole, flows from heaven to the soul.”
-
Author Unknown –
As you
all know, we LOOOOOOVE to play music sporadically throughout our day. I’ve
found that it lightens the mood of the classroom and even helps the kids stay
on task. Plus it’s just plain ole fun!
So we
just recently found out that “Watch me (Whip/Nae Nae)” is now on GoNoodle and
needless to say the kids are OBSESSED with it and want to play it every day
(very unlikely)! It’s been interesting to watch them do it and to watch them
coach some of the other kids on the “correct” way to do this dance!
We also
did shared reading with the lyrics to “Vivir Mi Vida” by Marc Antony! We looked
at some of the word patterns and discussed how authors and songwriters show
pauses in writing. Lucky for us we were able to look at this song in both English
and Spanish as we had Stephany and Zaria translate for us! We’ve also added it
to our class playlist!!
“The only way to
learn mathematics is to do mathermatics.”
- Paul Halmos –
We’ve
been working a lot on word problems as we continue our journey to master
multiplication! Words problems are the hardest part for the kids, but we are
going to continue to work on it and I’m going to continue to give them word
problems to help better develop their conceptual understanding.
“There is no friend
as loyal as a book.”
- Ernest Hemingway –
We’ll we’ve
got the best of both worlds: books and friends! Many of the kids have found
friends within the books that they’ve been reading. This week the kids wrote
letters to their favorite characters. I noticed that a lot of the kids had
questions for these characters. This week I believe we’ll make time to have the
conversation of why the authors are leaving us with these questions.
Speaking
of friends, we made 16 new friends when we started our weekly book buddy gathering
with Mrs. Luchsinger’s class. It was so wonderful to watch these 3rd
graders and 1st graders reading together, talking about their
favorite books and getting to know one another! I’m very excited to see the
growth in both their reading and their relationships with one another!
As you
all know, parent/teacher conferences are coming up! If you haven’t signed up
for one, please contact me! I’m looking forward to chatting about the progress
our kidos are making!
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