Week of 9/24

We are off to a great start in Room 41! 

Here's the learning update:

In WRITING, students have just published their first poem, uniqueness reflection, and even a letter setting goals. We are building writing stamina through a variety of quick writes and reflecting on the independent writing atmosphere. As we develop more seed ideas in our writer's notebook, students will choose a personal narrative topic by the end of the week. 

In WORD STUDY, we have finished assessing students knowledge of high frequency words and students are being introduced to the word study process. In addition, we have just started studying our first set of vocabulary words.

In MATH, students have taken a placement test in addition to finishing Topic 1: Place Value. We have practiced reading, writing, expanding, and rounding numbers through a variety of activities, videos, and quick checks. Students have learned the expectations for fluency games and continue to build their fact fluency and mental math through warm-ups. Students have also started to use ST math as well as Pearson Realize (our core online math program). We will be assessing on Topic 1 this week and starting math centers next week! 

In ELA, we continue to read aloud many different types of texts to build students' knowledge of genre and theme. We have learned about the expectations of the reader's workshop model and continue to reflect on the idea of "Reading Thinking" and the different types of thoughts we have while we read. Students are learning how to jot thinking on sticky notes and express their independent reading by writing letters. 

In SCIENCE, we have completed a few STEM activities, in addition to a scientific method experiment. Students have learned what science is, it's importance and how to conduct an experiment. We just started our first earth science unit on landforms.