Tuesday, September 10

We have some awesome individuals in this class and I have been focusing on the talking and few kiddos that are loud and haven't taken enough time to say thank you to the majority of the class that have changed their behavior and are doing wonderful... so, THANK YOU! We played Homeworkopoly for the first time today. Some students are just hanging out until their next turn while others received rewards on their first move. Some of the rewards are chewing sugar free gum, first in line to eat, read with someone else and play computer games for morning work. In Social Studies, we learned about Ohio's location and landforms. Does your child know our borders? Or the region of the US Ohio inhabits? After gym, our stinky class :) worked in Guided Math. We are going to be learning Math kind of like we do Reader's Workshop. Students have a Math Menu that they work in partners and independently which allows me the ability to reteach or provide extension activities to small groups. Today, they just completed activities on their Math Menu and using their Exit Slip from today, tomorrow, I'll be able to pull some small groups. Instead of Read Aloud, we took the Scholastic Reading Inventory. Again, this is just another look at your child as a learnner. I am attending professional development on the 26th to interpret this data. After this assessment, we read silently while I continued to assess the remaining kiddos with their reading (6 more to go!) We worked in our Wrtier's Notebooks today and created a list of things we wonder about. Ask your child what they wonder--some were very profound, emotional, silly... Finally, we sorted our spelling words and found the generalization for this week's words-short vowel sounds.