The students in 2B had a wonderful "Camp Wannaread" experience today. Together we had a total of 2010 minutes of reading. It was suggested by one student that, as Camp Director, I should have brought the ingredients for s'mores. Smiles.
With Halloween fast approaching, I thought I should review the plan for Friday. Students can wear their costumes to school in the morning but should bring regular clothes incase they want to take the costume off. The Halloween activities are in the afternoon so children may just want to put their costume on at noon. Masks and accessories that are weapon-like should be left at home. No make-up will be applied at school. Please explain to your child that those details are to be saved for Halloween night. The children will be playing outside at recess as usual so they need to dress appropriately for the weather. Students should not plan on changing into and out of costumes multiple times. A couple of children have asked about bringing treats and healthy snacks to share for recess (10:15 a.m.)Friday is Hotdog day. If you'd like to do so, a friendly reminder about NUT allergies. As well, there are 18 students in the class. Please let me know in your child's agenda if you can help out with this.
Next week and for as long as the treats last (smile), please limit your child's lunch box to one treat for recess snack and one for lunchtime. I'd appreciate your support with this.
Happy Halloween!
Friday, October 22, 2010
Million Minute Challenge
Monday, October 25th is Million Minute Day at Greenfield and other participating Island Schools. Our class will be doing reading activities and recording our minutes toward a school total. It's all about promoting Literacy. Your child can bring a comfy pillow, one reading buddy and some books from home to read on Monday.
Monday, October 18, 2010
Hello folks,
A friendly reminder to please pack a hat and mittens in your child's backpack, as well as an extra sweater or warmer jacket to keep your child warm at this time of year.
Please ask your child to tell you about his/her H.W. reading book before you share it (retell, comprehension). Then let your child read it to you. If there is a challenging word in the text, he/she should be practicing the reading strategies on the bookmark. Reading aloud also builds fluency (smoothness vs bumpy reading).So far the assigned books should all be the easy level but I'd appreciate your feedback in your child's agenda. I have been working to assess each child to find their independent level. Please talk with your child and ask him/her questions about the story. Reading is getting meaning from print so understanding what he/she reads is key. We have been practicing our reading groups and learning that readers "think" when they read. Three ways to read a book are to read the pictures (supports the text), read the text and retell stories they have already read.
We have been "building" words each day using small card stock letters. This activity allows the children to explore their knowledge of sounds and to practice spelling patterns (like word families), beginning and ending sounds, etc. It's a neat problem solving activity for the children to take one letter from or add one letter or move just one letter, etc. to make a new word.
We are continuing to work with word families and are now using the H.W. read-aloud poems/songs for word study. Tonight the children had to look for rhyming words and plurals(words that mean more than one). In the future, we can also look at contractions, compound words, word ending, etc. in this way.
In math, we have explored the hundreds chart and patterns. We have worked on "even" and "odd" numbers and the children discovered the rules that even numbers end with a 0,2,4,6 or 8. Odd numbers end with a 1,3,5,7 or 9 digit. They demonstrated with beans that a chosen number was even (shared equally by 2 people) or odd. We still need practice with counting in different ways. Please spill out some nickels so your child can practice counting forward and backward by 5's, some dimes so he/she can count by 10's, etc. Try calling out a number less than 100 and having your child print it or touch it on the 100's chart. Collect a little baggie of things (buttons, cheerios, small toys, etc) and have your child group and count the items in different ways. Strategies for adding numbers are useful,more efficient and acceptable than using one's fingers. On Wed. I will be sending home supports for our first strategy: adding doubles.
This is just a hint of what we've been up to in 2B. I'm really pleased with the level of interest in learning most of the students are displaying. They are wonderful children.
* Watch for an office memo explaining our upcoming Halloween plans.
* I'd like to suggest that your child have a spot or basket at home to keep supports like flashcards (coming tomorrow). I'd like you to encourage and reuse these supports.
*Please return the "Sweets" game that was sent home last Wed. We'd like to continue to use it at school.
*If you have any question, just drop me a note in your child's agenda.
Thank-you!
A friendly reminder to please pack a hat and mittens in your child's backpack, as well as an extra sweater or warmer jacket to keep your child warm at this time of year.
Please ask your child to tell you about his/her H.W. reading book before you share it (retell, comprehension). Then let your child read it to you. If there is a challenging word in the text, he/she should be practicing the reading strategies on the bookmark. Reading aloud also builds fluency (smoothness vs bumpy reading).So far the assigned books should all be the easy level but I'd appreciate your feedback in your child's agenda. I have been working to assess each child to find their independent level. Please talk with your child and ask him/her questions about the story. Reading is getting meaning from print so understanding what he/she reads is key. We have been practicing our reading groups and learning that readers "think" when they read. Three ways to read a book are to read the pictures (supports the text), read the text and retell stories they have already read.
We have been "building" words each day using small card stock letters. This activity allows the children to explore their knowledge of sounds and to practice spelling patterns (like word families), beginning and ending sounds, etc. It's a neat problem solving activity for the children to take one letter from or add one letter or move just one letter, etc. to make a new word.
We are continuing to work with word families and are now using the H.W. read-aloud poems/songs for word study. Tonight the children had to look for rhyming words and plurals(words that mean more than one). In the future, we can also look at contractions, compound words, word ending, etc. in this way.
In math, we have explored the hundreds chart and patterns. We have worked on "even" and "odd" numbers and the children discovered the rules that even numbers end with a 0,2,4,6 or 8. Odd numbers end with a 1,3,5,7 or 9 digit. They demonstrated with beans that a chosen number was even (shared equally by 2 people) or odd. We still need practice with counting in different ways. Please spill out some nickels so your child can practice counting forward and backward by 5's, some dimes so he/she can count by 10's, etc. Try calling out a number less than 100 and having your child print it or touch it on the 100's chart. Collect a little baggie of things (buttons, cheerios, small toys, etc) and have your child group and count the items in different ways. Strategies for adding numbers are useful,more efficient and acceptable than using one's fingers. On Wed. I will be sending home supports for our first strategy: adding doubles.
This is just a hint of what we've been up to in 2B. I'm really pleased with the level of interest in learning most of the students are displaying. They are wonderful children.
* Watch for an office memo explaining our upcoming Halloween plans.
* I'd like to suggest that your child have a spot or basket at home to keep supports like flashcards (coming tomorrow). I'd like you to encourage and reuse these supports.
*Please return the "Sweets" game that was sent home last Wed. We'd like to continue to use it at school.
*If you have any question, just drop me a note in your child's agenda.
Thank-you!
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