We celebrated the 50th day of school this week! We compared clothes, toys, cars, restaurants, books, music, and more from today to the 1950s. The students chewed bubble gum, played with Mr. Potato Head, built with Play-Doh, wrote numbers to 50, and raced to 50 on a game board. The kids who dressed up looked adorable!
We are talking about setting in Reader's Workshop. We have learned that the setting is where the story happens, different stories have different settings, illustrations can tell us the settings, and that the setting can change in a story. We used the story Little Red Riding Hood to help us with this concept. It has been tricky for some students to tell where the story happens because they are so used to telling what is happening. You can practice this with your child during read alouds at home. If you watch a television program or movie, you can talk about the setting too. It is important for students to realize that not all books have settings. For example, an informational text about shapes does not have a setting.
We added the word like to our Popcorn Word Wall. We practiced writing the letter Bb and producing the sound it makes.
We have been working with 3 dimensional shapes in math. We have been identifying them, finding them in the environment, and playing games with them. I would like to have a "Shape Museum" next week so if you have any objects that are cones, cubes, rectangular prisms, spheres, or cylinders that you would like to donate, I would appreciate it.
We have been talking about Veterans Day this week too. We read a book and made cards for my mom to deliver at the VA. We also made soldiers to display in the hallway.
I put a conference sign up sheet in your child's folder on Friday. Please return it as soon as possible to get your preferred time. I know that the 4-6:30 slot usually fills up fast. I can also add some 8:00 am slots during that week if that works better for your schedule, just add a note.
Have a great weekend! Remember there is no school on Monday!
