It has arrived! Our time capsule is now in the classroom and your lovely kids have thought of a million great ideas of ways to represent both themselves as individuals and the class as a whole :) About half of the students will spend the next week creating a newspaper to let the future know all about how our class works, and the other half will be making a map of the classroom! The excitement is awesome and I plan on a productive and fun week! You can support your student at home by exploring different kinds of newspapers and maps. In math we have begun working more with ten frames and base ten blocks. A great resource is the book "It Makes Sense! Using Ten-Frames to Build Number Sense," by Melissa Conklin. It can be purchased on Amazon for around $20 and it is full of great lessons and games to help students build their number sense. I also have a copy in my room which you are welcome to make copies of :) In reading we have been talking about "inference" using a variety of books. We will continue with this skill for a bit longer, as I feel that a number of students are still at the beginning of building an understanding of this skill. I have found that it is helpful to model this very explicitly for the students once or twice in a book, before guiding them through the process themselves. In writing we have continued with Writers Workshop, and have introduced the idea of sequence. At home, you can encourage your child to write stories where there is a beginning, middle, and end. I have them use little booklets when working on this skill in order to emphasize the passage of time. Here is the template that I use, just cut the paper in half and staple 3-4 pages together: Reminders:
-Picture Day is on Thursday/ Friday ( October 10th and 11th) -Work Journal Meetings are next Monday and Tuesday (October 14th and 15th) from 3:30-4:30pm. This is due to Student Led Conferences. - Student Led Conferences are on Wednesday and Thursday next week (October 16th and 17th). Students Led Conferences are a chance for students to take responsibility for their learning. As the name suggests the student should be doing most of the talking. Both the parent and the teachers are encouraging the child to share more about his/her work. The format allows for children to be reflective of their work and practice the real world skills of communication and leadership. Student Led Conferences are different from Parent Teacher Conferences in many ways. They are not an opportunity for parents to voice huge concerns or for teachers to answer specific questions. The time frame of Student Led Conferences is longer, and adult talk should be kept at a minimum. I am available most days before and after school to meet and have more traditional parent/ teacher conference conversations. If you have not had a chance to sign up here is the link: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0D48A8A729ABFE3-october I have added a feature to this blog to allow you to subscribe and have a notice sent to your email when I update the blog :) All you need to do is enter your email in the box at the right and hit "subscribe." You will then get an email asking you to confirm, and you will begin getting updates. I hope that you find this helpful, and let me know if there are any problems with it :) I hope you have a wonderful week! Robin Comments are closed.
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