February 27

Happy Monday Families.

This morning I met with my guided reading groups and reviewed strategies that help us read unfamiliar words.  I have noticed that the most popular strategy seems to be "look for the parts you know or look for little words in big words".  This makes me soooooo happy :)

Mrs. Quilley is at swimming this week so Ms. Thomas and I taught gym.  We played a hoop/card game that Mrs. Quilley taught us last week.

We had  music today and we were working on creating our own songs with our precorders.

We did not have Writer's Workshop today.  During this time I collected many guided reading books that need to be returned.

This afternoon in math we worked with a group of 1/2 students and taught them an addition game called Slam Dunk.  I am looking for more dice. If anyone has some to donate I would be very grateful.

At the end of the day we worked on organizing our ideas for our Speeches to the United Nations.  We are working in pairs with Ms. Thomas' class.  Our job today included: picking a right, choosing a country, and organizing our ideas using a word web or list.  Tomorrow we will work on writing a persuasive speech.

Please return swim forms.