You do the Winter Pokey and you turn it all around...

Readers Workshop: Students practiced both Private and Partner reading while trying to identify complete sentences in their books. We will be working on building up the time that students are reading independently as we will be beginning Guided Reading in small group as January comes to a close. This will give students the chance to be instructed at their own level and begin to make more marked progress in Reading.

Writers Workshop: We reviewed what is required to make a sentence - a capital (or "big) letter at the beginning and a period at the end. We wrote a few short sentences on the board "I like you." and "I love cats." and identified the parts that make it a sentence - ex.) the capital Is at the beginning and periods at the end. Then we circled words that make up the sentence. After that, we underlined each letter that makes up the words in the sentence. After practice, students were asked to go back to their seats and practice with their own sentences, creating and marking the sentences the way we had done as a whole class. Most students were successful in doing this task independently or with a small bit of 1-on-1 assistance.

Literacy: We began a week-long literacy project called "Mittens" The book contains various kinds of mittens and each pages contains the phrase "Mittens with _______." For example, today we colored and practiced reading the pages "Mittens with stripes." and "Mittens with dots."

Math: We introduced and practiced forming the number 9. We did rainbow tracing and practiced the poem "Draw a circle, then a line. That's the way to make a nine."

Music: Mrs. McDermott and Mrs. Chiappe led music today, doing the "Winter Pokey" and songs about The Mitten.

Red Mystery Bags: Students who returned their bags after the Winter Break checked out new Mystery Bags. (Just a reminder- the instructions that're in the Mystery Bag need to stay their, please do not remove and leave at home. Thank you)