I missed listening to Branden read last Friday as our child of the day, but everyone said how much they enjoyed his reading! He read the book, What Would You Like, because he thought everyone would like it and they did!
Matthew was our child of the day today and he read a great book, How Lizard Loses His Tail. He also thought we would enjoy it and we really did! Great reading, boys!
We also had a Mystery Reader today: Chris' grandfather! He was very, very, surprised!
Not only did his grandfather come, but his mother and sisters! What fun!
In writing we learned more about revision. We learned that we have signs in our writing (punctuation) and we have to make sure it's correct! We read the book Mr. Pine's Mixed Up Signs and learned that if we have the wrong signs (or no signs!)the reader doesn't know what to do: when to stop, when to add expressions, etc.
Gavin and Natalie finished up their gingerbread stories today and did a great job revising (fixing up) their orginal stories. We will begin publishing those tomorrow. More to come!!!!
In reading, we continued learning about the reading comprehension strategy of inferring. We read the poem Things that we began last week and looked for clues to add to our schema to infer meaning of the poem.
We worked on new vocabulary words (see wiki!) by reading the story Miss Viola and Uncle Ed Lee.
In math, first graders worked on math facts using pennies and second graders worked on addition algorithms.
Tomorrow, 1st graders will take MAP for reading. We have started showing first grade students how to do their reading response on the wiki. Instructions come home the day we show them, so look for them in their Libery Folder. All second graders now can record their reading on the wiki. It's been interesting to see what they are reading. The wiki allows me to write back to the students about what they read.
Stay warm!
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