10/29/15
Thank you for the overwhelming generosity in book donations to Room 3! We have been having so much fun reading our new books and adding them to our classroom library. As your child becomes a more proficient reader, it is really important to continue reading to him/her as often as possible. Listening to an adult read helps children with vocabulary, hearing sentence structure, and gives them an opportunity to enjoy text beyond their level. Marinate your child in literature and help them fall in love with reading.
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A GIGANTIC thank you to the amazing Mom's that started the day in Room 3 and helped out with Pumpkin Day!!! We had a blast!. We wrote pumpkin stories, found sums of 12, made art projects, played a roll and record game, practiced symmetry, patterns and tried some tricky math games. We voted on how to carve our largest pumpkin and are very thankful to the Mom's that carved it. We have estimated how many seeds are in a large, medium, and small pumpkin and will count the seeds next week. Later in the day we decorated pumpkins with sparkles, pom poms, stickers and feathers. We had an awesome day! Thank you again to all the helpers!!! The theme of the PRIDE skit at school meeting today was including others in play. Our fifth grade leaders did a great job showing what first graders do very well. I watched at recess today as groups of students went off to play leaving a few stragglers behind and wondered if these students needed time alone or if they were unsure how to join. One by one each student was approached by others and they were either invited to play or were asked a question that ended in play. We will be spending time in Open Circles teaching student how to join play in progress but I am again impressed by the genuine care this class has for each other.
Our class will be celebrating Pumpkin Day on Friday, October 30th from 9-10:30 and I need your help with supplies and with volunteers in the classroom to help with pumpkin related activities. I am looking for 6-7 parents who would like to help and for three pumpkins ( small, medium, large). If you are interested in helping out or sending in a pumpkin please email me at [email protected].
We will have stations set up in the classroom and we will start the day having the class in 3 groups of 6 or 7 children. Each group will spend 10-15 minutes at each pumpkin station (small, medium and large), estimating the girth and then voting on the features (using a chart and tally marks) they would like carved into the pumpkin. I am looking forward to a really fun celebration! Today in math we played the "Tub Game". In small groups students worked with 10 unifix cubes and a bowl. One student put several cubes under the bowl leaving some on top. The other student needed to first count how many were showing then tell how many were hidden totaling 10. It was really fun and I was proud of the team work I observed. I was particularly impressed with students helping one another to find the answers. This is a fun and easy game to play at home. We had the best day ever in Room 3! I was so happy to see we had 100% participation in pajama/stuffed animal day. We worked really hard today but were super comfy and snuggled with stuffies too. We did have some special choice time towards the end of the day with seasonal art supplies, legos, blocks and animals. Excellent end to an excellent week! We have begun to fill our second compliment jar........ Room 3 has worked very hard as a team and earned a jar full of compliments! As you know, today is a pajama day celebration of team PRIDE in our classroom. Please remember sneakers for physical education and recess. Stuffed animals are allowed as long as they can "nap" in the backpack during parts of the day. I am very proud of Room 3 and look forward to many celebrations of hard work!
Today we officially started RTI in language arts. RTI means response to intervention and it is a team approach to teaching targeted instruction to small groups of students. These groups are flexible and fluid and adjust according to our focus. Students work in literacy centers within the classroom and some receive specific small group instruction with various teachers. Mrs. Sontag, Mrs. Lukianov, Mrs. Behr, Ms Germaine and I all work with small groups. When your child brings home a bag with a paper back book please practice reading it each day and return it to school. We LOVE math stations!!! Our focus today was adding and subtracting within 20. We used dice, cubes, tiles, unifix cubes and played lots of games manipulating numbers. On IPADS we practiced looking at quick images with dots, 10 frames and fingers. When asked about math stations today students said they were AWESOME!
It always amazes me how quickly the weather can change. WOW was it chilly at recess today! Fall always brings variable weather and it can be really hard to decide how to dress your child. Layers are always the way to go. The temperature can vary within the school and morning recess can feel very different from lunch recess. Our recesses are 20 minutes at snack and 30 minutes at lunch. We will go outside each day it is possible to do so. I recommend keeping gloves and a hat in your child's backpack as an option moving forward,
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