Hello hello world! We have jumped full force into week two of school and it is AWESOME! I adore my class, have I mentioned that yet? Well I do. That being said, let's get down to business.
What we're doing this week:
Word Study: Short vowels, there is a homework guide glued into each students word study notebook (I'll attach that tomorrow, it's on the other computer). All students have the same sort this week. I will have groups made up by next week or the week after and we will have differentiated lists.
Reading: We are working on character traits and growth across a series. I will be reading some books from the Bunnicula series to the kids over the next couple of weeks while we discuss how a character can grow and change over time. Other aspects of reading comprehension will be practiced as well, but our man focus is characterization.
Math: My math class (remember, we switch for math!) is working on prime and composite numbers this week. Today we introduced the concept and talked about the factors of numbers (the numbers you multiply together to get a product. For example the factors of 8 are 1,2,4,8 because 1x8=8, 2x4=8)
Social Studies: Geography. Last week we focused on the world, this week we are narrowing our focus to North America and the United States. We have talked about the eight different regions of the U.S. and will be focusing on state locations within those regions throughout the rest of the week.
Writing: We are working on a personal prompt writing "What Do You Hope to Accomplish this Year? How?"
Keep your fingers crossed for better weather, it was raining today so we had inside recess. I hate it when we have to do that, I feel like the kids are cooped up all day, they deserve that time to use up some of that energy. Think clear sky-ed thoughts!
~Mrs. Kelly
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