Friday, November 7, 2014

November 3-7

Take a peek at our week!  It was a shorter week but we packed it full of learning!

Reading

In reading this week we looked at talking and talking back with our partner.  The children learned to explain:
  • text to self connections with evidence
  • text to text connections with evidence
  • wonderings/questions 
  • learned how to mark a talking spot
Question:  What is a talking spot and how do you mark it?

Writing

In writing, we started a new Small Moments: Personal Narrative Unit.
  • what is a small moment
  • zooming into a small moment
  • small moments are made from feelings
  • developed a list of small moment topics
Question:  What are the small moment topics you chose to write about in this unit?

Math

We continued to work with data and surveys this week
  • surveyed first grade classes, collecting age data
  • compare age data
  • used multiple ways to represent data
  • formative assessment-data was based on types of pizza we like
  • quick surveys

Questions:  What is a quick survey?  How do you use them in class?

Social Studies

Our focus this week if family traditions.
  • viewed art work and talked about what the artist was trying to communicate
  • what tradition was portrayed in the art work
  • completed a drawing of our own family traditions
  • practiced presenting our Family Museum
  • shared Family Museums with buddy class and families
Questions:  What did you learn from your friends Family Museums?  Do your friends have similar family traditions?

Upcoming events:


11/11-Veterans Day Celebration
11/12-Picture Retake Day
11/26-11/28-No School, Thanksgiving Holiday
12/3-Late Start

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