We had a very busy day. We began our day writing in our writers' notebook. We call our notebook The Daily Pages. We write down our thoughts, our feelings, things that happened on the way to school....all the things we need to get off our mind before we actually begin writing. We will use this later to "lift a line" for writing time...ideas that reoccur for writing time, and more.
During reading, we worked some more on building stamina for reading. We went over how we pick a good fit or just right book. We will work on this for a few days yet.
Writing time we spent a few minutes on handwriting. We use Handwriting Without Tears for first and second grade. Friday and today we read two Olivia books. We then "stood on the shoulders" of Ian Falconer and wrote about a time we may have lost something or wrote about our lives. I needed a writing sample before we begin our Unit of Study: ABC books tomorrow.
During math, 2nd graders played addition and subtraction top it, while I taught the first graders to play top it. They then all played the three top it games. This is the beginning of the math workshop. Tomorrow they will get their math journals.
Don't forget open house tomorrow night at 6:30. See you then!
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