We are all different!

Our class and Mrs. Bradford's class were very fortunate to be able to plan Rowe School's January Community Meeting.  Our community meeting focused on how everyone is different.  We shared that Martin Luther King Jr. was a man who believed everyone should be treated fairly and kindly, just like we believe at Rowe School.  The two classes learned and shared a poem with the rest of the school.  The poem focused on imagining what the world would be like with just one color.  The children worked hard to learn the poem, and it showed when they shared the poem today! 

The pictures above show children painting paper crayons for the community meeting.

 Last week in Reading we:

• Created an anchor chart for the different ways to buddy read.  Children modeled the different ways and then all children practiced with their buddy.  This was a review lesson.

 

• Reviewed that readers say a story back to themselves when they finish reading a book.  I taught the children to go back and reread if they can't remember parts of a story.
• Learned that partners can share predictions with each other when buddy reading.

Last week during Word Work we:

• Added "like" to our word wall.
• Matched pictures with the letter the picture word begins with.
• Practiced spelling and writing word wall words.
• Learned color words and matched color words.

Last week in Writing we:

• Learned that small moment stories are stories that happen in one place, at one time, and are about one thing.
• Used Google Earth to learn how to zoom in on a topic.  The children loved this!  We began by looking at the whole world and eventually zoomed in on Rowe School.
• Learned about "watermelon stories" and "seed stories."  This is an analogy I shared to help children understand the difference between a big topic and a small moment story.

Last week in Math we:

• Used our bodies and string to make giant shapes.  Later in the week we compared and contrasted shapes that are the same but different in ways.  

• Sorted blocks by attributes the children defined.

• Played a game called Dice Roll.  Children rolled two dice and then added the dots together to find the sum.  After finding the sum they colored one square above that number on a bar graph.  They did this until one number reached the top of their graph.  We then compiled this data into a class bar graph to determine which sum was most likely to be rolled.  We discussed why certain sums were less likely to be rolled than others (ex. There are less ways to make a sum of 2 than 8 when rolling two dice.).

• Solved subtraction number stories.

We have a cold week ahead of us!  Let's hope it warms up enough for the children to get outside a few times!