Vegetable Soup, Writing Celebration and Outdoor Play! 11/14-11/18

 

This week we wrapped up our farm unit with a focus on vegetable farms.  We made our own vegetable soup.  Many students LOVED the soup!  We used kid safe knives and students cut up all the vegetables themselves.  Many students asked me to share the type of knives we used with you.  These are similar to what we used. They loved being able to prepare the vegetables safely.  Our next unit is geography and cultures around the world.

Our class has started a reading incentive program!  For every 15 minutes your child reads at home, have them color in a pumpkin.  When they have 4 pumpkins colored in, they can bring it to school and put a sticker on our reading chart.  When we have 60 hours of reading we will celebrate with Pajama and Stuffy Day!  The pumpkin sheet came home in our home school folders, but here is the sheet if you need one! You can also just make your own!  The important part is practicing reading for 15 minutes as often as they can.  

Scholastic Book Orders:  A book order went home on Friday.  Orders are due 11/29.  You can place orders online here.  Click connect to teacher and enter our code FWQFN      If you would like help with your child’s reading level or w Learning highlights from the week:

• Math- First grade students worked on partners to 10 this week.  They worked on knowing them in a flash.  They created flashcards to help practice these facts. When we return we will be working on adding 3 numbers.  Our doubles facts and 10’s facts will help us to solve these problems.   Second graders continue to solve missing addend problems ( 36 - ___ = 60).  The idea is to use their understanding of partners to 10 and place value to solve the problems.  Example:  36 + 4 = 40… (6+4=10) so 40 + 20 = 60.  Therefor 36 + 24 = 60

• Reading- Our hard work on blending and segmenting words,  heart words, book box reading and book clubs continue.  We have also been practicing our automaticity with short vowel sounds.  E’s and I’s are especially tricky!

•  Writing-We finished our Small Moments personal narrative unit this week!  We celebrated by reading our stories to Mrs. Poor’s Kindergarten.  The Kindergartners loved our stories.  When we return from break we will be focusing on writing conventions.  

Mindfulness- The students have really done an amazing job talking about  and showing gratitude.  They were so excited about all the food items we collected and so proud when we brought them down to the office.