November 16

During guided reading we continue to work on using several vocabulary strategies as well as re-telling the main events of the story.  Each student will be getting a book mark with all  the vocabulary strategies listed so they may be referred to during independent reading times.

In writer's workshop we have been talking about how writer's get ideas.  We created a brain pocked which is divided into 3 sections: memories, facts and imagination.  Each student listed several different topics under each heading that can be referred to during writing time.  Today we also talked about climbing stories.  We learned that most fiction stories are organized this way.  The story starts with a setting and characters and it builds or climbs to a problem which is eventually solved.  We are currently using story maps to help us organize our ideas.  

In math we continue to work on related facts (connecting adding and subtracting).  I have started a teaching math using Math Daily 3.  This is a very hands on way of teaching/learning math.  Each math time (approximately 45mins- 1 hour per day) is organized as follows.  1. Mini lesson on skill being taught. 2. Students choose a job from Math Daily 3 (math with someone, math by myself and math writing) and then we work on a word problem.  Today our word problem was.  What numbers can you make that are below 100 and there is a 6 in the tens place?  How do you know when you have them all?  Please post at least one answer on the blog and how do you know that is one of the correct answers.

Have a great evening.