Learning highlights from the week:
Math- Between having no school on Monday and an early release on Wednesday, our afternoon math time this week was limited. First Graders worked with subtraction playing Roll and Record and solving subtraction word problems. Second graders began discussing strategies for solving Enough for the Class problems and puzzled through Try-A-Tiles. I have a description of Try-A-Tiles below
Literacy- Wow, literacy stations are going so well. Students are engaged, working hard and doing some great reading. I have started book clubs with a few students. During these book clubs we will work on comprehension skills and look at author’s craft. Other students are working on skills such as blending words together, recognizing and sounding out digraphs, beginning and ending blends and automaticity of all short vowel sounds.
Writing- This week we worked on sentence structure and letter formation.
Science- Our rocks and minerals unit is shifting into landforms and erosion. This week students built a model of a mountain and tested how rain moves down the mountain into rivers and streams. We learned that eventually that water ends up in an ocean.
- Mindfulness- We have been talking a lot about the parts of the brain, especially the amygdala and the prefrontal cortex or the PFC. We have also been talking about courage and what it means to be courageous.
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