plus one number chart

Tuesday: My book Naughty Little Monkeys

Monday: My All About Me Poster

Hello!!!

Another busy, busy day!

A couple of reminders:

Reading Folders: Reading folders need to be returned each day. Please listen to your little one read, sign that he/she has read and then return the folder to backpack!!! Even IF (which shouldn't be the case) your child does not have time to read that night the folder needs to be returned the following day!

Math Homework: Okay...I sent two papers home today! Topic 2 is a game that you can play with your child and keep at home! Topic 2-1 is the page that needs to be returned COMPLETED tomorrow! However, the front page does not give you all the numbers you need to complete it! Please pick numbers that you feel your child can handle!!! If this is too confusing then you may SKIP the first page ONLY!!!

Guided reading is going well. We have several different books and reader's theaters going right now! Please remember at this point your child will have the same reading all week. As we become more fluent, accurate and increase our comprehension the reading lessons will change.

Not only did some groups read today but they did a little bit of guided writing as well. We were able to identify some of our spelling words in our text and practice spelling those! (I will share writing notebooks at conferences...these will not come home on a regular basis as they are needed for lessons throughout the year!) The groups that have reader's theater scripts will work on these throughout the week and will podcast them when they feel comfortable!

So...today Gage brought in the book Naughty Little Monkeys to share. Lots of little dragons enjoyed the book. "Miss Guy, it's like the David book where he gets gum all over!" said Joel. (great text to text connection)

Wow!! FUN TIMES in Math today...first we decided that the BEST way to "build" a number is to make groups of tens and ones (left overs)! WELL... once we decided on that we moved to a place value work mat. Everyone had a tens and ones work mat...Miss Guy said, "plus one" everyone added one cube to their work mat...we all said, "I have 0 tens and 1 one my number is 1"...all the way to 9...when I said plus one the next time we had to group our "left overs" into a group of ten and move it over...So now we said, "I have 1 10 and 0 ones" While we were building our numbers Miss Caras was recording what we were saying (see number chart above)! Tomorrow we will play plus one again...However, I will build the numbers under the document camera and the students will fill in their own chart! We will then begin to look at number patterns! We will keep our number chart going through out the year! So I need your help. I need a cardboard paper towel roll from each of you! We will store our number charts this way. Please send this in as soon as possible!

We reviewed our five sense today and made a flip book to add to our science journal. We wrote about things we liked to smell, taste, feel, hear and see...Some got creative and wrote about things they hated to smell, taste, feel, hear and see! Tomorrow we will find out what it's like to lose one or more of our senses!

Have a great evening...Don't forget Math, reading and spelling homework tonight!