Curriculum Update

This month in Reading Workshop we…

·       Began the unit, “Building Good Reading Habits”

·       Discussed what reading workshop looks and sounds like

·       Chose leveled and non-leveled books to keep in our book boxes

·       Practiced partner reading behaviors

·       Discussed that good readers…take sneak peeks, check their sneak peeks,    read many books, and do something after reading

This month in Writing Workshop we…

·       Began the unit, “Small Moments”

·       Practiced adding details to picture and words when writing stories

·       Completed a list of writing ideas to keep in our writing folders

·       Learned different strategies to use when writing an unknown word:  stretch it out and listen for sounds, dictionary, word wall

This month in Math we…

·       Began the topic, “Solve Addition and Subtraction Problems to 10”

·       Worked on addition problems by adding one part to another part and    worked on solving addition problems with a missing piece

·       Worked on solving subtraction problems involving taking from a group

·       Learned various math games to strengthen both addition and subtraction skills

This month in Social Studies we…

·       Just finished the unit, “What is a Citizen?”

·       Decided together on the rules of the classroom

·       Created a class constitution about how we will interact with one another

·       Discussed what a citizen is and how we can be “good citizens”

·       Talked about our rights and responsibilities as citizens

·       Read the book Swimmy and discussed how teamwork was shown

*Beginning our first Science unit "Weather"