Monday Marvels

Giorgio read a non fiction book to the class about sharks and then lead us through the calendar and promise. Thanks, Giorgio!

Math Workshop: as both grade levels are learning about fractions, we worked on dividing circles into equal parts, then using the book Picture Pie as an example, students created pictures only using circles. As they worked, I taught the 1st graders more about equal shares and then 2nd graders about area.

Readers Workshop: We will be learning about the reading comprehension strategy of synthesis, but before we start, we are reviewing retelling a story. Retelling is a surface level understanding, but we begin there. Synthesis is a deep structure understanding where we use all our strategies, taking the material in the book and weaving it with our own ideas. Our thinking changes and gets bigger. We will be working on this the rest of the school year.

Writers' Workshop: We reviewed what a personal narrative was and then as a Pre-assessment, wrote a small moment narrative. We will dig deeper into how to write a personal narrative as we learn more about organization, voice, sentence fluency, leads, endings, and more.

Tomorrow we have library, so be sure and return your books.