Reading
October's Book Responses are a creative choice between a "Cereal Box" response and a "Book Mobile". Although not everyone has had a chance to share theirs yet, they all look fabulous! I love that students are really thinking about books they read, and are able to make connections and share what they have read.
Here are a few pictures of the Cereal Box responses. Look for Book Mobile photos next week.
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| What is this?! The Rainbow Pants by Orrington, Maine author Kelly Brooks-Bay! |
Writing
We are in the middle of focusing on poetry in both reading and writing. Students have been creating "Shape Poems", as well as working on writing poems that rhyme. It's not easy as it sounds!
We also have been working on letter writing. In response to our study on Christopher Columbus, students are pretending that they were a sailor on one of Columbus' ships. They have written a letter back home (pretending that it could be carried by messenger pigeon, of course) detailing how they are feeling and what they are wondering. These letters really show an understanding of what it would have been like to be sailing in the unknown in 1492. Once these letters are complete and added to our bulletin board, I will post a photo.
'Rithmatic
We have not left telling time, coins, addition facts, or working with story problems, but we have added geometry to our math lessons. Students are learning about 2- and 3-dimensional shapes, as well as how shapes fit together, turn, and flip. Visit our Portaportal page (the link can be found on this blog page, under "Web Links") to see what computer games we are playing to support our geometry learning.
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| "Find the Block" - matching 3-dimensional blocks to their 2-dimensional face shapes. |
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