Friday, May 5, 2017

WEEK OF APRIL 24 AND MAY 1

This week in....

Reading we:
  • Discussed having an opinion about a book
  • Rated our books with 1, 2, or 3 stars
  • Recommended and lent books to our reading partners
  • Did a popcorn word jumble activity 
  • Read Elephant and Piggie books to prepare us for the play on Monday
  • Learned about Bossy "e"!

Writing we:
  • Spent the week writing opinions.  Here were some of our topics:
    • Should the boy step on the ant?  Prompted by the book "Hey, Little Ant"
    • Should the Pigeon Drive the Bus. Prompted by the book...:0
    • Do you like tomatoes?
    • What's the best pet? 
    • Book reviews
  • Started small moments again
    • stretched out the middle of our stories
    • discussed how to end our stories
    • noticed many small moment stories have people talking in them
    • learned how to change the eyebrows and mouth on the people in our pictures to show feeling

Math we:
  • Played a dice subtraction game
  • Made triangles using other shapes.  We had a discussion/challenge on weather you could make one using a square as one of the shapes.  We concluded the answer was "no".
  • Learned and practiced a new app called ADDIMALS
  • Played a +1 dice game
  • Used positional words to describe a shape design we made to our partner to see how closely they could match it and then revealed!  Fun game to play at home!



  • Surveyed and graphed "Would you like to have a bird on your head?" (Elephant and Piggie story)
  • Played a doubles game

Other
  • Celebrated our Lunch Heroes by making the a sign we hung in the cafeteria!  Thank you to Ms. Barb and Ms. Nancy for all you do to keep our kids healthy, trying new foods, and making lunchtime so fun and festive!
  • Community Services is running a Reading and Writing Summer Camp for Rowe Students only from July 31-August 11 at Rowe School!  Most children regress in the summer.  This is a perfect way to keep the reading going with some fun summer reading and projects.
  • Field trip Monday to Merrill Auditorium
  • Arbor Day Celebration May 19


Kindergarten Funny:
I want to be a mathmagician when I grow up.