Dear Parents of Room 10,
Transitioning
during instruction and specials has been challenging for the children this
week. Moving from one subject to another
without talking hasn’t been easy for them.
However, we will continue to practice and I will continue to have high
expectations for behavior. Please take
the opportunity to chat with your child about appropriate classroom behavior.
In writing
our focus has moved to “Specials!” The
children have drafted their first essay based on a special person in their
lives. They will also be writing about a
special place and special object. These
exercises are a good way to start as they give the children an opportunity to
write about people, places and things they know a lot about.
This week I
began to determine the children’s reading levels using Fountas & Pinnell,
the district-approved reading assessment.
As I have mentioned previously, each assessment takes between 20-30
minutes. I have to say that, while I was
working one-on-one with some students, the remainder of the class did a
beautiful job working independently.
In the
crayfish unit this week, the children will be conducting experiments related to
stimuli. Some of the kids have enjoyed
taking them out of their aquarium to play with them. Others still haven’t quite warmed up to
them. Either way, the experiments
continue. This past week we played our
first crayfish vocabulary game. It’s a
cross between Jeopardy and Family Feud.
They did well. You should
encourage the children to study their crayfish vocabulary throughout the
week. A quiz will be coming in a week or
so.
We met with
our “Fluency Friends” on Thursday to work on reading fluency. This is our focus for the school year. The children have enjoyed working on reading
fluency in our classroom with Readers’ Theatre and in Mrs. Bacher’s room with
her 2nd graders.
I
am including a few pictures of the children as they listened to Mrs. Bonacquist
read the story, Enemy Pie. It’s
always nice having Mrs. Bonacquist stop-by and read to the kids. They are very attentive and engaged.
This coming week in celebration of Farm to You Fest, the
children will be enjoying a vegetable taste testing, compliments of Zoe’s
mom. Be sure to ask them what they
enjoyed the most!
Kind Regards, Lester B. and Class
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