Do you have a writer's eye?
Here are a few reminders to everyone of the important rules of writing. Are you remembering your capital letters and punctuation? Are you using the right size spaces? It is always nice to have a model to refer to.
Our classroom rules.
We have talked about these quite extensively and believe that they are important to the success of our classroom. We have some hand motions and even songs for a few of the rules. So far, we have been doing a pretty good job of keeping these in mind throughout the day.
MATH
We have been working on making the number 10 in as many ways as possible.
Making Change
Buy an item at our class "rummage sale" with a dime and make the change.
Making a 10 to help solve problems when the answer is greater than 10.
For example: Betty holds 8 fingers up, and Jan holds 7 fingers up to represent the problem 8 + 7. Betty is only two numbers away from making a 10, so she borrows 2 of Jan's 7 fingers. Now Betty has 10 and Jan has 5!!! 10+5=15 is an easy way to solve 8 + 7.
Using a number line
Take a look at the list everyone helped come up with.
Reading Groups and Partner Reading
Writing
We read and wrote realistic fiction stories this week with the theme of camping. Here is our anchor chart showing a web of camping words that we referred to throughout the week.
Our "happy camper" stories turned out pretty awesome!
