This week we reviewed short vowels. Our class sorted our weekly words based on how the words are similar.
Here are the groups students created:
Short vowels: hot, top, men, cut, him, man, his, as, has, cabin
Ends with n: cabin, men, man
Word Family -as: as, has
Starts with m: man, men
Starts with h: him, hot, has, his
Short a: has, as, cabin, man
Short o: top, hot
Short i: his, him, cabin
Short u: cut
Short e: men
During Reading, we reviewed reading with a partner and practiced how to echo read. This is another way readers can practice their reading.
Echo Reading: Student A reads a page. Student B reads the same page, echoing what Student A read. Student A and Student B take turns reading the book.
Writing
This week students continued to work on publishing their writing pieces about goal setting for our PTC conferences.
We also learned about writing complete sentences.
Writing Vocabulary
Complete: has no missing parts
Order: the way things follow one another
Related: words that go together in some way
Sentence: group of related words in the correct order that states a complete thought
Naming Part: tells who or what the sentence is about
Telling Part: says something about the naming part
Students practiced writing complete sentences by unscrambling sentences. They highlighted the capital letter at the beginning and punctuation mark at the end. Then, underlined the naming part in red and underlined the telling part in green.
Math
Last week we started learning about subtraction. Students have learned four strategies to subtract and are using these strategies to begin solving subtraction stories.
This week our class finished the first chapter in Social Studies. The big question for this chapter was, “How can people best cooperate?”
Students reviewed what they learned about:
- Good Citizens
- Rights/Responsibility
- Rules/Laws
- Leaders
- Government
- Symbols
Our class has started a new unit in Science about how engineers plan, design, and build to make new things. Students practiced following the design process by designing their own airplanes.
The Design Process
- Find a Problem
- Plan and Build
- Test and Improve
- Redesign
- Communicate
- Ms. Allison