Hello Hello! This week has been so much fun! We started the "My Place in Time" project and have been having a great time exploring stories, artifacts, and time lines. I have been surprised and excited to see how much knowledge your kids already have on many different aspects of "long ago." We made a time line of Abe Lincoln's life on Mon/Tues and we are going to start reading a short biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder on Thurs/Fri. We will be studying newspapers and creating a newspaper based on her life and times. An interesting home extension might be to spend time looking at newspapers and practice writing newspaper articles. This week we will begin to work on "beginning, middle, and end" during reading. After you have read a story with your child, discuss the order of events and have them create a visual or written representation. Two graphic organizers that you could use: If this seems easy for your child, you can create similar visuals that have more boxes to incorporate more events. You may need to have conversations about what constitutes an "important event." Another interesting home extension might be to have them create comic strips as this is a classic version of "beginning, middle, and end."
In math we have started to do a Problem of the Day. These are word problems that can be used to discuss different addition/ subtraction strategies. Example: June had 6 baseball cards. Ty gave her 11 more baseball cards. How many baseball cards does June have now? I try to emphasize that I want them to show me how they solved the problem, not just the answer. Allow them to work with counters, and encourage drawing visuals. Share with them how you would solve the problem. Change the numbers based on your students level. In writing we have begun writing Narratives. I have spoken to several of you about recreating Writers Workshop at home, and will touch on this at Jumpstart as well. This week's focus is on taking one moment and "stretching" it out. A good strategy to try is to have them tell you the story before they write and ask them questions to help them verbalize the little details of the moment :) I will be seeing most of you at Jumpstart (Wednesday, September 18), and this time will be used to go over Work Journal #2 and answer any questions that have come up. I understand that some of you have more than one child at DVIA, and so I am offering another Work Journal meeting after Jumpstart at 4:00pm in my room. Don't forget that Work Journal #1 is due next week!! I have posted a Work Journal Exemplar on the "Learning Goals" page. Please feel free to reference it in order to improve your Work Journal. I hope that everyone is starting to get into the "back to school" groove :) As always, please feel free to contact me regarding any questions you might have about the class, work journal, or project! See you next week! Robin Comments are closed.
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