February
Language Arts: More Adventures of the Superkids: Unit 2 and Unit 3
Math: Unit 5 Test. Unit 6: Developing Fact Power, Quarters, Digital Clocks, and Centimeters. Most of Unit 6 is devoted to understanding the relation between addition and subtraction through fact tables, fact families, and fact triangles. Students are expected to practice +0 through +9 flashcards this month. Social Studies: Where We Live
Science: Healthy Foods
Writers Workshop:Story prompts, fiction & Gingerbread Stories, Story Responses
Readers Workshop: Choosing a Just Right Book, Story Plot, Setting
Reading Strategies: During....
Follow along with your finger
Make a movie in your head
Sound out
Look for chunks
Look at the pictures
Reread if it doesn't make sense
Read on use context clues
Don't Forget: Before Reading...
Look at the pictures
Read the title
Make a prediction
Think about what you already know about the topic
Miss Budds, Miss Penna & Miss Tarabokia
Bucket Fillers
In a new twist on the Golden Rule, Have You Filled a Bucket Today? explains to children that we all carry an invisible bucket in which we keep our good thoughts and feelings. When our buckets are full, we are happy; when they are empty, we are sad. It's important to know that when we fill someone else's bucket, we fill our own, and when we "dip" in someone else's bucket, we dip in our own bucket, too.
In our classroom, each student has a bucket. Everyone is encouraged to fill the buckets. I have always been a strong believer in the importance of building community and being a school family, so this brings my efforts to light in a tangible way. On Fridays, we empty the buckets and talk about all the ways we have filled our buckets throughout the week. Each student will have journal to paste the kind words they find in their buckets. Student can also express how this made them feel when they received it.
