Reading Strategy Celebration

This picture collage made with Smilebox

We celebrated the end of our October Unit of Study in Readers Workshop by sharing all of the reading strategies that we've learned with our Kindergarten friends from Miss Davison's room. We shared the books that we created highlighting the strategies that we use the most and then shared a just right book with them. We hope that they learned some new strategies that will help them to read LONG and STRONG!

Next week we will begin a new unit of study in Readers Workshop where we will learn about Character Traits in the books that we read.

In Math we have been learning about lots of different kinds of ants. We have been practicing taking notes and highlighting the most important information in a piece of informational text. We then created spreadsheets to organize the information that we read about. Next week, we will use our new found knowledge to create addition and subtraction story problems for our fellow mathematicians to solve. The focus will be on showing our problem solving with numbers, pictures and words because strong mathematicians use multiple representations to show their thinking.

In Number Corner we have been practicing many mathematical skills that we use every day in the world that we live in. For example, telling time to the nearest five minutes, finding multiple ways to combine coins to show a certain amount of money and finding patterns in the monthly calendar and days in school hundreds chart. These are simple things that you can reinforce when you see them occur in daily life. Your young mathematician may be surprised at how many ways we use math in a single day!