Dear Parents of Room 10,
This has been a most productive week! Despite having Monday off, we were able to
accomplish a ton! We completed our second spelling unit, and the children
worked on their first graded Daily Oral Language. I was most impressed that so many children
confidently and effectively edited sentences needing to be corrected. They know how to correctly use quotations
marks!!! This was an unexpected treat!
The children have published their first
piece. Our focus in writing this week
was personal narrative. I asked the
children to think of a person who really matters to them; someone who is very
special to them. Subsequently, they
isolated a “moment in time” and wrote a story. I am maintaining a binder in the
classroom that will hold all of their published pieces, along with their
“Weekly Reflections.” I will share their
pieces with you at our parent-teacher conference. Our next piece will be a second personal
narrative concentrating on a special “place.”
As you might imagine, the highlight of our
week were the crayfish. Many of us,
myself included, broke down and held a crayfish or two. Hopefully, everyone will have this experience
sometime in the near future. We began a
cut-and-paste activity with vocabulary associated with the crayfish
anatomy. Next week, our spelling words
will be related to our crayfish friends.
I know the children will enjoy the activities associated with this
spelling unit.
Starting next week, I will begin meeting
with your children to assess their reading comprehension level. With 25 students, it takes quite a while to
meet with each of them. My goal is to
establish a base-line reading level. We
also chat about favorite books, favorite authors, reading strategies, etc.
Have a nice weekend! Lester B.
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