I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving! I know I enjoyed the long weekend with my family! I am looking forward to seeing all my little, smiling, kinders though! I can't believe we will be moving into DECEMBER already!!!
What a magical time of the year- especially when you are surrounded by children!!
If you have a special holiday that your family celebrates this season, please let me know,
we'd LOVE for you to come in and teach us about it. Thank YOU!
we'd LOVE for you to come in and teach us about it. Thank YOU!
Our Turkey Trot was a huge success! Thank you to all the families who donated items! I tried loading pictures last week but I was unsuccessful. Let's see if it works this time...
A big thank you to Corinne's mom, Nicholas's mom and Chance's mom for walking with us!
Readers Workshop:
This week we will continue reading personal narratives and other stories that help us understand illustrations more.
BOOKS WE WILL READ AND SKILLS TO DISCUSS:
Knuffle Bunny: We will use this story to help us see movement in illustrations, facial expression, character and setting, beginning, middle and end of stories)
Knuffle Bunny Too: boxed off pictures, examples of how the pictures give us more information than the words)
Knuffle Bunny Free
The Paperboy: boxed off pictures, passage of time, clothing, character, setting
These are great stories and the Knuffle Bunny is available in our monthly book orders!
Letters this week: E, Ed, /e/ and U, up, /u/
Sight Words: you, all, of
Sight Word Reader: Can You See?
Writing:
Lesson 1: Personal Narrative
Lesson 2: Telling stories in illustrations (we will apply the skills we learned during readers workshop into our own personal narratives)
Lesson 3: Drawing even hard to make ideas
Lesson 4: Carrying on as Independent Writers
MATH: This week we will focus on comparing numbers with Rekenreks and hands on games as well as review number writing. We will continue with our estimation and weekly graphing question.
Rekenreks
Monster squeeze
Top It!
The rekenrek, or arithmetic rack, was designed by Adrian Treffers, a mathematics curriculum researcher at the Freudenthal Institute in Holland, to support the natural development of number sense in children.
Smaller versions consist of two rows of 10 beads. Larger versions with ten rows of ten beads are also available. Each row is made of five red beads and five white beads. This allows students to make mental images of numbers. Using 5 and 10 as anchors for counting, adding and subtracting is obviously more efficient than one-by-one counting. This tool provides learners with the visual models they need to discover number relationships and develop a variety of addition and subtraction strategies, including doubles plus or minus one, making tens, and compensation, thereby leading to automaticity of basic facts.
We loved our play our few weeks ago! Here are some pictures from that wonderful field trip!
A BIG thank you to all the families who donated items for our FIFTIES party! The boys and girls had such a fun time celebrating this special day! These fun activities wouldn't be possible with your support. So the kids and I thank you!
Nicholas is our star student this week. Your friends in the Huard Huddle are proud of you!
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