I'm sorry I did not get to all my reading groups in order to give new books! Tomorrow we should be back on schedule.
Today we had group picture retake! And before I knew it...it was time to go to LLI and then recess.
We are starting Personal Narratives the next few weeks. We will be talking about cause and effect as well and adding that to our writing. The last week in April we will be writing our end of the year (yes, you read that right...CRAZY) writing sample. The students will be asked to go through the writing process: Brainstorming, organizing, writing, editing and revising, on their own. I will collect these pieces and add them to their literacy folder. It's always fun to see how they develop as writers K-5.
We took our spelling pre-test today...Be sure to look over these words daily. Last week our spelling pattern was vowel (o) consonant silent e...We talked extensively about this pattern creating a long vowel sound. This week we will have the same pattern just using the vowel (i) instead.
On Thursday we started collecting data. Now we need to start sorting that data so that it will be easy to get information from!
I asked everyone to pick their favorite color crayon. Then everyone put the crayon in a big baggie. We decided that we couldn't tell much about all the information we had. It just looked like a bunch of crayons.
Steps to sorting:
- dump out all of the colors
put all the same colors in a pile(pile didn't work much better...we could see which had more or less BUT as Jack said, "a master of subitizing could not subitize those!")put all of the same colors in a line(but what kind of line. We tried this but all of the crayons were not the same length. "Put them shortest to longest...Nope that doesn't help.")- put all of the same color in a line ON TOP of each other!!! DING DING DING This was the most organized way of sorting and made it the easiest to look at and interpret! "HEY, that's a chart or a graph!" I love it when they GET it and I don't have to do much! ;)
This week in science we will be talking about the parts of a butterfly...
Vocabulary: head, thorax, abdomen, antennae, eyes, proboscis, legs, and wings
Today we talked about the antennae, eyes, proboscis, legs and wings. Feel free to discuss with your pup!
- antennae: butterflies have 2 on their head and use them to "smell".
- eyes: compound, able to see in many directions without turning their head used to see
- proboscis: a slender straw like organ used to sip nectar, juice and water
- legs; 6 legs used to taste
- wings: 2 pairs that help them move and fly they also feel vibrations because they do not have ears to hear with.
IMPORTANT:
- field trip forms and money due April 12
- if you use a yahoo account to correspond with me...We are not receiving nor are we able to send emails to these accounts. FISD tech people are aware of the issue and are working on solving the problem. I do not know if the emails are delivered or not...I sent some on Friday and they were not returned to me until Sunday evening!
- Canned Food Drive: please send in non perishable items this week and next!
- Special's Teacher Appreciation Week!
- I will be out Friday and Monday...
Have a great evening! 9 weeks of school left...:( only SIX more Mondays...I was informed by my pups this afternoon of this information!
