Daily Info

Hello Families, 
I just wanted to let you know about our academics this month:

Daily 5 Update: 
The students have done a great job learning the routines for each Daily 5 activity. They are now practicing working quietly and finding the choice that's right for them during Daily 5. The students are reading just right books, working on snap words, reading to a buddy and working on writing. While they are rotating through these activities I am pulling guided reading groups. Mrs. Marting will also come in during this time and pull reading groups as well.  

Writer's Workshop Update: 
The students are learning about Small Moment Writing/ Personal Narrative Writing. During the mini lessons the students will learn how to plan a story, touch and tell across the pages and sketch across the pages. They will learn how to use a rubric to add elements to their stories: 

• wrote about a small moment
• tried to make a beginning
• put pages in order
• used sequence words
• found a way to end my story
• had details in my pictures
• used labels and speech bubbles
• spelled snap words correctly

These are elements that they will be learning about and trying throughout the unit. This unit will take until mid October. They love Writer's Workshop!



This is the Chapter book that we are reading after recess each day. There are 7 more books in the Stink series that I will read. Ask your child about STINK!

Math Workshop Update: 
We are working on number sense and addition this month. The main number sense concepts are skip counting, even and odd numbers, counting numbers in and out of order, one more, one less and using tally marks. 

Addition concepts are using part, part and whole to create addition stories and number sentences. The students will work on strategies for solving addition number stories and number sentences. 

They are working in whole group lessons, mini lessons, small group instruction and small group center rotations. The lesson will either be whole group or small group instruction based on what the students know and how they score on a pretest for specific math concepts. 

Working with Tally Marks: 

Projects Update (Science and Social Studies):

We are starting our Social Studies unit called: People Everywhere. We will talk about learning from our family, school and community, being a good citizen, the importance of rules at home, school and community and helping our community. 

• Be on the lookout for Homework in your child's folder! 
• Bring library books every Wednesday!
• Spelling tests will start next week. 
• Student Spotlight will start next week!