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Friday September 28, 2012
NEWS
I hope you all enjoyed the unusual week. It was interesting to have a day off in the middle of the week. It made the week feel very short. The students definitely had more energy come Friday.
Friday September 28, 2012
NEWS
I hope you all enjoyed the unusual week. It was interesting to have a day off in the middle of the week. It made the week feel very short. The students definitely had more energy come Friday.
Part of the balanced
approach to literacy here at Allen Brook is Fundations. We utilize this curriculum to teach spelling,
and word work. So far this year our time
during Fundations has been spent reviewing what the students learned last
year. We have been quickly moving
through the units reinforcing the strong skills they have from
Kindergarten. In the coming weeks we
will begin to move away from individual letter sounds to letter combinations
and the role syllables play in spelling patterns. The day to day procedures are designed to be
repetitive and reinforcing which leads some of the students to say “it’s too
easy”. However we are creating
strategies that will hopefully lead to good spellers in the years to come.
This week we also had
a visitor to our class. Olivia Wilder is
St. Michael’s student who will be joining our class every Thursday
afternoon. She will be working one on
one and with small groups of authors during Writer’s Workshop.
Cold season has hit
our class hard. It seems like nearly
every one of our students, and teachers, in our classroom, have some sort of
cough or cold. We have been working hard
at washing our hands more often and being conscious and careful of our
germs.
ASK ABOUT
- Art in the Tech Lab
- Creating animation in the Tech Lab
- Ways to sort buttons, frogs, sea creatures, and bugs
- Jam Move it day
- Creating stories on the I-pads
Kids Quotes
·
“Why did the worm cross the road?... to shave his beard”
·
“I would take the class to outer space…or New Hampshire.”
A few photos from Reader's Workshop
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