This week we started our first writing workshop! Writing workshops require students to go through a series of steps in their writing to encourage feedback, drafting, and revising strategies. As we continue to explore identity and community in Social Studies, students wrote about their personality traits. Ask your child what their "best part of me" trait is!
We also completed another writing piece this week! Inspired by the book Leaf Man, students created their own leaf creatures and used sentence frames to guide their writing. Grade two students took on a mentorship role and supported the grade 1s by providing specific and helpful feedback. Our current writing focus in grade 1 is spaces, sky-grass-dirt printing, and lowercase letter formation. Our focus in grade 2 is sentence organization, proper punctuation, and spelling with increased phonemic awareness.
We completed a short vowel check-in for each grade. With the learning goal being short vowel sounds, words were marked correct if students included the correct vowel in their inventive spelling.
During the Daily L.A. station "read with teacher", groups began reading books with CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words, CVCC/VCC words, or words with digraphs such as "ch" in them.
In mathematics we completed skip counting on a 100s or 150s chart. Students completed a self-reflection to demonstrate their understanding.
We also practiced mixed skip counting starting at different numbers with an increasing or decreasing rule!
Math Games and Materials
We completed our Thankful Pies from last week. They turned out great!
Snack in the Garden
Students have been working so hard on their Art Cards. They are looking beautiful. Stay tuned for information about this fundraising opportunity and ordering!
Our assembly was a great success! Thank you to all the students in our class and Room 10 for helping share the message of Grace and Courtesy with our whole school!
Reads of the Week
Have a wonderful weekend,
Ms. Greenhall
Studio Bell Field Trip
The grade 1/2 classes will be taking a field trip to Studio Bell in December! Our class will be going on Wednesday December 4th. This venue only allows a limited amount of adults for the program. Please ensure you have your CBE police check and I will let you know closer to the date when I will be asking for volunteers.
Important Dates
Thursday, October 24th - Fun Lunch
Thursday, October 24th (PM) & Friday, October 25th - Parent-Teacher Conferences
Monday, November 4th - Picture Re-takes
Friday, November 8th - PD Day - No School
Monday, November 11th - Remembrance Day - No School
Tuesday, November 12th & Wednesday, November 13th - Fall Break - No School
Thursday, November 14th - School Council Meeting (PM) - Grade 1/2 teachers presenting
