It was another fun and exciting week in Room 115! Please enjoy a few updates below.
Important Dates:
March 8th:
Parent/Teacher Conferences (In Person Only)
6:00-8:00PM
March 10th:
Early Release
Parent/Teacher Conferences (Virtual or In Person)
1:15-3:15PM
March 16th:
Parent/Teacher Conferences (Virtual Only)
6:00-8:00PM
March 31st:
Early Release Day
Announcements:
Parent/Teacher Conferences
A friendly reminder that spring parent/teacher conferences begin this week. The conference scheduler on Boyden's main website is now closed. If you did not make an appointment but would like to meet with me, please email me directly. I am looking forward to speaking with you about your child's progress!
Filming
The film students from the high school will be returning this Wednesday (and for the next few Wednesdays) to continue filming for their movie "First Day". If your child did not leave an extra shirt/sweatshirt at school for filming days, please have them wear the same top they wore last Wednesday to school this week. If you forgot what they wore please let me know. I took a class picture just in case!
Book Character Dress Up Day!
We had a great time celebrating book character dress up day on Friday! Thank you so much for all of your help with planning and creating such wonderful costumes. Click here to watch a video of our book character parade!
The children also did a great job drawing and writing about their book character costumes!
Curriculum Update:
Fundations
Last week in Fundations we practiced reading the sight words me and be. We also continued to practice tapping and/or sliding CVC words such as hat, mug, and pot, and also built CVC words using magnetic letters.
In addition to our Fundations lessons, we also spent time reading words in the "ig" word family. The students had fun making ig pigs during center time!
Math
In math we are continuing to learn about two dimensional shapes in our geometry unit! Last week we continued to sort shapes by various attributes including size, color, sides (straight vs. curved) and number of sides and corners.
Reader's Workshop
In reader's workshop we started Unit 3 in our Lucy Calkins curriculum. This unit focuses on boosting our reading super powers! Last week the students were introduced to "picture power" and using the pictures in books to stregthen their understanding of the stories we were reading. During our lessons we used the pictures in stories to help us understand more about the characters and setting, feelings of the charcters, and to make predictions about what might happen next.
Writer's Workshop
Last week was an exciting one in Writer's Workshop as we began a unit on procedural or "how to" writing! To kick off the unit, the students enjoyed listening to many how to books including How to Make a Cupcake and How to Fish. At the end of the week, they used their how to skills to walk me through the process of brushing my teeth! This week the class will use all of their "how to" background knowledge to start writing how tos of their own!
Along with our how tos, the class also enjoyed some fun Friday writing with a special directed drawing. In honor of Read Across America week, we decided to draw and write a sentence about the famous pigeon from Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus. The end results were very impressive!
Thanks so much for taking a peek at our week! Please check back soon to watch us learn, grow, and play in the wonderful world that is K!
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