Happy New Year!

The children returned to school last week excited to see their friends and ready to learn!

During Reading Workshop we:

• reviewed what it should look like during read-to-self and buddy reading times.
• learned that readers become better readers by reading every day.
• learned that readers get their minds "warmed-up" by doing a picture walk prior to reading a book.

During Writing Workshop we started a mini narrative writing unit.  We learned that:

• writers think of something they've done and tell their story across the pages in a book.
• writers can use sequencing words to tell the order of their story.
• when writers want to spell a word, they say the word slowly then write a letter for each sound they hear.
• writers leave spaces between words.

During Math we:

• played Ten Bears on a Bus to help us learn combinations of ten.
  
  
  
  
• learned about a number grid and discussed different patterns we noticed on the number grid.
• played a game called Roll and Record to help us practice adding and recording data on a graph.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

Have a wonderful week.

Best,

Katie