Today was such a great day! We started by finishing our Lorax mustaches from yesterday and Play Doh. Then we did our math focusing on subtraction with numbers up to 10. The students are doing a really nice job with this! We are working on showing "subtraction" (our word of the week), with number sentences, pictures and number bonds. After math, we introduced our second letter of the week, Ww! We read our Alpha Tales book, Worm's Wagon and did our picture guess for things that start with the /w/ sound. After that we did our Calendar and Daily News routine. Then we enjoyed a nice recess outside. After recess, we had reading groups working with the letter w. We also read our leveled readers, did our sight word "she" page, read our decodable and listened to the story "Dinorella." After reading groups, we worked on our Narrative writing some more from yesterday. We learned our Narrative chant that helps us to remember what we need at the beginning of our story. "When? Where? Who? And a Hint of the Plot (HOP)!" You might have heard your little one chanting it yesterday! These are elements you can ask your child while you are reading at home. Students understanding of these elements will help us with writing our own stories.
You might ask these types of questions:
1) When did the story take place?
2) Where did the story take place?
3) Who was in the story? Who is the main character?
4) What is a hint of the plot or hint of what might happen in the story?
These story elements are normally found at the beginning of the book and sometimes we might need to get these answers from pictures in the book.
Here is an example of the beginning of one story we looked at today.
After writing, AM students had Free Choice Time and PM students chose to play Four Corners!
Reminders:
1) Tomorrow is the Take Home Book Exchange!
2) Friday, the Homework Folder is due.
3) Friday, Library books are due.
4) We have our Fourth Grade Buddies this Friday!
5) Art-A-Baloo is next Friday, April 29th!
Have a great evening!
~Love,
Mrs. Wittwer
