We have been working very hard on fluency for the last few weeks, but this past week we marked one of our poems in phrases of two to four words. We read the lines in different ways to see what sounded better. When we were all done, we read the poem, paying attention to the phrases we had marked. What a difference it made! Our first graders are starting to really understand how reading should sound. We are also working hard on this in guided reading. When you read the take home books with your child, be sure prompt him or her to "read it like this," as you model it, in a few places. Remember that reading picture books to your child is still very important. They need to hear you model that phrased, fluent reading! Keep up the great work!
In writing, we are working on finishing up our small moment stories and this week we'll be doing a study of punctuation. We've learned a lot about how writers write about what they know, and so we've worked on writing about small moments from our lives. We take one small moment and write lots about it. We write about what happened, how we felt and what we though. Many of us are remembering to punctuate some of our sentences already, and hopefully we'll get closer to punctuating every sentence soon!
This week we will be adding a new center, Reader's Notebook! The students will each get their own special notebook for this center. This week, the students will be writing about themselves, but in the coming weeks, they will be writing about books they read.
Last week, we added the words or, had, by, not, let, and us to our word wall. Please look for an updated word wall sheet to come home in your child's red folder today.
This week in math we will be introducing dimes and adding combinations of pennies, nickels, and dimes. We will review graphing by creating our own class graphs. The children will be exploring dot patterns on dominoes to find the sum of the two parts. Additionally, the students will be learning more about place value and two digit numbers. Look for Home Links 3.9 and 3.10 to come home this week.
This week we will be starting a new social studies unit on communities. Please return the parent letter that came home last week if you would like to come into our classroom to tell the students about your job.
Special Points of Interest
- No school this Friday, November 10th - end of the quarter and records day/professional development for teachers
- No school November 22nd, 23rd, or 24th
- Scholastic Book Orders are due November 17th. Flyers will be coming home today. Shop Online: scholastic.com/readingclub Class Activation Code: JBVLX
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