Mentor Texts:
Students were introduced to the writing concept instruct.
They practiced the procedure for a school fire drill, made a movie and created posters explaining how to be safe in a fire drill. This was presented to the whole class as way to teach the features of a good instructional text.
Features:
Title
sequences steps
Action word to tell the reader what to do
Pictures and captions to describe steps
Next week students will be creating short video clip and independently producing a poster of their own! The choices will be: How to Brush Your Teeth, How to Check Out a Library Book, How to Call 9-1-1, or How to Wash Your Hands.
What we have been up to:
Readers Response and Comprehension:
- Identifying character traits, main idea and details, (see mentor text)
- Making text to self connections
- New Guided reading groups. Please be sure your child returns his/her leveled book the very next day!!! We are seeing lots of reading progress kids are building confidence and flying through books.
Writing:
- Introduce the student to Instructional writing as a genre. Whole class project titled, How to be safe in a fire drill.
- Review the features of a good narrative.
- Wrote a February break story. Thanks for helping to make such great material. The kids shared stories of: tubing, skiing, visiting friends, trampoline parks, playdates, cooking and so much more!
Phonics/Phonological Awareness:
- Listening for beginning blends, decoding cvc and ccvc words, (cat and clap).
- Handwriting uppercase letters M, N, O, P
- Sentence writing with spaces and appropriate punctuation ( . & ?)
Math:
- Relating addition and subtraction.
- Recognizing the symbols for addition and subtraction (+, -, =)
- Vocabulary words: sum, difference, whole & part
- Exploring ways to make numbers ( see charts)
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Social Studies:
- Community helpers with a focus of firefighters.
- Chineese New Year.
- Presidents Day and the job of the president.
Why to we celebrate President's Day?
What holidays are most important to our family?
Why are firefighters brave?
How can you describe a doctor, (librarian, teacher, police officer etc.)? Ask for adjectives.
What do you want to be when you grow up? Why?
Tell me the sum of ___ and _____.
The me the difference between ______ and ______.
