January 23rd

Writing

This week we started doing some opinion writing. The students chose their favorite type of weather and then wrote about why it was their favorite type. We practiced writing complete sentences using descriptive words and transition words between sentences.

Next we will be writing nonfiction pieces about different types of extreme weather.

Reading

I am so proud of how hard the class worked during reading time! I met with every student to do their reading benchmarking, so students had a lot of independent work time.

The class used their work time to start our weather unit. We started by writing weather memories (we made these into a class book, check it out at conferences!). 

Then the class wrote on posters things they thought they already knew about types of weather and questions that they have.

The class is also working on reading nonfiction weather books to ask and answer questions. They are reading through our science book to answer questions in their weather packet.

Next week students will use computers to research their weather and make posters as a group.

Filling in our weather posters

Answering weather questions using nonfiction books

Math

Our focus this week was story problems. We practiced doing problems with extra information, and started doing 2 part story problems. The class is getting much better at knowing if the story problem is solved using addition or subtraction. This is also a great unit to practice explaining our thinking, as students often get to their answers different ways.

We also started our unit on graphing. The class loves asking questions and creating graphs!

Story Problem Scoot

Extra

We celebrated the 100^th day of school on Friday! The class worked on 100^th day books, ate a 100’s snack, and went to the other classrooms to do 100^th day activities.

Thank you to everyone who sent in food to make our snack a success! We will be using the extra supplies to continue practicing our graphing next week. J

Making the 100th day snack

With our very first class rock!