Week of April 20th-23rd From the Classroom Literacy In literacy, we introduced our final set of heart words for the school year (please refer to the previously posted chart for the full list). From now until June, we will focus on reviewing and strengthening all of the heart words we have learned, helping students build confidence and automaticity in their reading and writing. We also explored new letter teams : edg , tion , and tch . Students practiced recognizing these patterns in words and began applying them in their own writing. Using story mats and roll-a-story activities , students engaged in independent writing , stretching their ideas and building simple narratives. We also revisited nouns and verbs , helping students better understand how words work together to create meaning. Reading continues to be a strong focus in our classroom. This week, students participated in: Shared reading activities to build comprehension and fluency Choral reading to devel...
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Week of April 13th-17th From the Classroom In literacy , we continued building our reading and writing skills by working on heart words and exploring letter teams kn, wr, and ear . Students practiced applying these patterns during our daily literacy instruction, where they participated in independent story writing and strengthened their reading comprehension skills. In math , we explored problem-solving through engaging Esti-Mysteries (from Steve Wyborney’s website), where students practiced making reasonable estimates and explaining their thinking. We also continued working with part-part-whole relationships to support our understanding of addition and subtraction . In social studies , we began exploring the concept of the past and how things change over time. We looked at photos of common objects and discussed how they have changed across the years. We also examined photographs of people, noticing differences in appearance as well as how photographs themselves have ...
Week of April 6-10 *My apologies for the lateness of this post -I have been unable to access the site until this morning due to technical issues. Thanks! From the Classroom Literacy Letter teams this week included r blends (br/cr/dr/fr/gr/tr) Heart words for the week included column H words from the chart posted in the Feb. 23 blog. During daily phonics instruction, students continued to review all letter teams and heart words introduced to date and apply that understanding during reading comprehension tasks and independent writing work. We continued to discuss what makes a word a noun or a verb and reviewed the "mechanics" of writing -particularly in writing the daily messages in communication books (upper case letters as needed, lower case letters as required, proper spaceing and punctuation as well as attention to neatness and letter formation). Math Continued work on writing subtraction sentences and solving subtraction questions was a primary focus this week...
Week of March 30th-April 2nd From the Classroom This week was full of meaningful learning across all subject areas, with students continuing to build both skills and confidence in their work. Literacy In our word work, we focused on letter teams -wor, -ed, and -ing , helping students recognize common patterns in words. We also worked with Column F of our heart word chart , continuing to build our bank of high-frequency words. Once all of the words in the chart have been introduced, we will begin revisiting the more challenging words regularly for ongoing review and consolidation. Students also continued to grow as writers! We have continued working on three-sentence stories , and used a variety of “roll-a-story” mats to support idea generation and structure. A story mat from this week has been included below for optional at home practice. It has been wonderful to see students becoming more confident in expressing their ideas in writing. Math Using the story Elevator Magic...