March 3rd - 14th

Volunteer Schedule for March

 

In Reader's Workshop we are working on characters and connections. So far we have learned that Good Readers:

• think about the "who" and call them characters
• can identify the main or most important character
• think about what characters do and say
• describe characters using character traits based on what they do and say 
• understand how their characters feel by making text to reader connections

 

3/3-3/7	New: boy, best, school, girl, take Practice Review: our, read, there, many, want Practice
3/10-3/14	New: end, other, father, brother, friend Practice Review: boy, best, school, girl, take Practice
3/17-3/21	New: why, new, right, old, think Practice Review: end, other, father, brother, friend Practice

Please visit the kidblog to see your child's penguin research papers and give them some feedback! The password is "2013/14". Just be sure to sign your comments with who you are, you can just say _____'s Mom/ Dad, so the kids know who you are.

We are now shifting focus to our unit word choice. Like in reading, we began by focusing on characters and making them more interesting. When trying to give our characters traits, we must tell what they do and say. We even learned about quotation marks! Then we continued to talk about describing words and using our 5 senses to tell about the things in our story.

This week we began unit 3: Counting and Place Value. We now know that numbers in the teens are made up of a 10 and some ones and that the numbers repeat 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 in the ones place and that the decade numbers (tens) sound like the number of tens they represent. For example, forty sounds like four!
You can help your child at home by giving them a collection of things (pennies, legos, beads, etc.) and helping them recognize that making groups of tens and then counting tens and ones is MUCH faster and more accurate than counting them by ones.