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| Block castle creation! |
Upcoming Events
Our Union Bank Day is Wednesday! If your child is interested, please contact me here at school and I can send home the informational packet. Brandi Locke is parent volunteer.
November 10th, 2017
Veteran's Day
No School Teacher In-service Day
Related Arts Schedule
Monday- Music with Mrs. Towle
Tuesday- P.E. with Mr. Hutchins and Library Class with Mrs. Bryce ( Remember those sneakers and books!)
Wednesday: P.E. with Mr. Hutchins
Thursday- Art with Mr. Lee
Friday- Guidance with Mr. Lee
Classroom News
Reading and Spelling Homework
On Monday, your child will bring home their reading bag. Students will pick 4-5 “just right” books to bring home and read. My expectation is that they read these books to you for about 10-20 minutes per night. Please record their reading on the book log that is in their home-folder. Please feel free to read additional books you have at home or any Raz Kids books, and include them on your child's reading log. If your child is reading a chapter book at home, just have them read a chapter or two each night and record that on their log. Remember to return reading logs in your child’s HOME-FOLDER, and I will take them out and give new logs out as needed.
Spelling homework will begin November 6th. Each week, I will send a packet home on Monday in your child’s home-folder. It will include a brief outline of our learning targets and background information for you to help at home. Your child will have a word sort, and a trick word ( sight word) practice activity. Packets should be completed at home or at homework club, and should be returned on Friday.
Waterville and Belivdere Long Ago and Today
This week we continued our study of the past and how it was the same or different from today! We unpacked our village kit from the Vermont Historical Society. It was so much fun and really interesting to hear the students ideas and thoughts! I set up our classroom to be an old fashioned store and gave each child a shopping list. They quickly discovered that the items they were searching for weren't in our store- only the materials needed to hand make their items! Students shopped for sweaters, scarves, socks, lamps, butter, toys and applesauce! On Wednesday we made our own butter in class! This week we will try on some old fashioned clothes and notice what clothing was like long ago
Shopping for a new dress in the olden days
meant shopping for fabric, sewing needles and thread!
Here it is! Our homemade BUTTER!!
Readers' Workshop
This week in reading we began a new unit of study on schema. Schema is the prior knowledge we have that is formed by our experiences. On Monday, we answered the question, why do people read? Students did a fantastic job articulating the many reasons we read. We discussed fiction books, nonfiction books/ informational books. Students thought of purposes for each type of book and then sorted the books in their books bags to see which type of books they have the most of! Next week, we will work on activating our prior knowledge, building and growing our schema and what to do when we have a misconception!
Working on writing! Students really love writing their small moments stories
which we work on during Readers' Workshop too!
Number Corner/Math
Workshop
Students sharing their measurements
of each other! These students worked on
writing 10 1/2 inches to describe
the total amount of Popsicle sticks used.
In math we worked on a fun new measuring project! Students learned to make estimations about the length of objects in our classroom. We used Popsicle sticks to measure friends, tables, books shelves and more. Each time applying our past knowledge when estimating the lengths of items. We reviewed combinations of ten and worked on identifying ten and some more too! We have begun writing our own number stories about the picture cards on our calendar. Students are really applying their past knowledge about our picture pattern on the calendar this month... and we think we've got it figured out! Students are so engaged and love Number Corner each morning!
All in all for a short week we got A LOT done. I just love working with all of these kiddos! They are such a joy to be with, and make the days fun! I hope you all had a wonderful long weekend. I have LOVED the beautiful weather.
~Mrs. Marcelino
Waterville and Belivdere Long Ago and Today
This week we continued our study of the past and how it was the same or different from today! We unpacked our village kit from the Vermont Historical Society. It was so much fun and really interesting to hear the students ideas and thoughts! I set up our classroom to be an old fashioned store and gave each child a shopping list. They quickly discovered that the items they were searching for weren't in our store- only the materials needed to hand make their items! Students shopped for sweaters, scarves, socks, lamps, butter, toys and applesauce! On Wednesday we made our own butter in class! This week we will try on some old fashioned clothes and notice what clothing was like long ago
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| Shopping for a new dress in the olden days meant shopping for fabric, sewing needles and thread! |
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| Here it is! Our homemade BUTTER!! |
Readers' Workshop
This week in reading we began a new unit of study on schema. Schema is the prior knowledge we have that is formed by our experiences. On Monday, we answered the question, why do people read? Students did a fantastic job articulating the many reasons we read. We discussed fiction books, nonfiction books/ informational books. Students thought of purposes for each type of book and then sorted the books in their books bags to see which type of books they have the most of! Next week, we will work on activating our prior knowledge, building and growing our schema and what to do when we have a misconception!
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| Working on writing! Students really love writing their small moments stories which we work on during Readers' Workshop too! |
Number Corner/Math
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| Students sharing their measurements of each other! These students worked on writing 10 1/2 inches to describe the total amount of Popsicle sticks used. |
In math we worked on a fun new measuring project! Students learned to make estimations about the length of objects in our classroom. We used Popsicle sticks to measure friends, tables, books shelves and more. Each time applying our past knowledge when estimating the lengths of items. We reviewed combinations of ten and worked on identifying ten and some more too! We have begun writing our own number stories about the picture cards on our calendar. Students are really applying their past knowledge about our picture pattern on the calendar this month... and we think we've got it figured out! Students are so engaged and love Number Corner each morning!
All in all for a short week we got A LOT done. I just love working with all of these kiddos! They are such a joy to be with, and make the days fun! I hope you all had a wonderful long weekend. I have LOVED the beautiful weather.
~Mrs. Marcelino
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