Support for Sandy

Although Hurricane Sandy has long since returned to sea, many of the communities she touched are still recovering.  Classrooms here at PPS have partnered with a classroom at Harry Truman elementary in New Jersey and are sending the students there cards and a book to let them know that we are thinking of them.  We spent time today thinking of kind phrases to send in our cards and making cards for those students.

 

In SWR we worked more with our short "o" families and practiced our red words.  We are getting so good at our red words! 

In math, we reviewed for our test and rotated through stations that practiced the skills we will be tested on tomorrow.  The students did a fabulous job reviewing today and will do a wonderful job tomorrow. 

 We rolled and added

 Counted coins

 Completed part/whole addition

and practiced Frames and Arrows

We read two more gingerbread man stories today that were very similiar to the others we have read.  One of the stories did have a different repeating phrase that we didn't like as much as the original one.  We noticed that there are *so* many transition words in the ginger bread books!  Today we heard,

• first
• next
• then
• finally
• as soon as
• Suddenly
• Without realizing  

When we were done reading, the students responded in their notebooks to, "Do you think the gingerbread man deserved to be eaten?"  The responses varied, but some of my favorites were, "Yes, he deserved to be eaten because he's ginger bread and he tastes good," and "Yes, he should be eaten because he's mouthy."  (The gingerbread man is a bit of a tease...) and finally, "No, he should not be eaten because no one would want to be eaten."

During reading groups we practiced our sight words, learned a new vowel combination (ee and ea as "long e" as in beetle and beach), and learned about "ar" words such as yard, garden and garbage." 

I checked in with Avery during literacy, and she was in the midst of completing a venn diagram to compare two characters in a book she is reading- what a great way to learn!  Way to go Avery!

We read two cloud books in science and recorded new information we learned in our notebooks.