Monday

Sorry for the late post.  With parent conferences happening all week, the blog updates may be a bit sparsehis week.  I'll do the best I can.

Today in math, we had a test on addition with regrouping.  2F students did quite well.  We will move into subtraction next.

We had computer lab today where we learned how to access Tumble Books for one of our work jobs during guided reading time.  Students know how to log in, find Google Chrome and sign into Tumble Books. Once in Tumble Books, students choose a book to listen to and record specific information on a Listen to Reading response sheet.  All students were able to do this today for practice and some got to have this as a work job too.

In writing, we wrote Weekend News. Children are expected to write 7 sentences about one event which happened on their weekend. I'm looking for them to tell a story in sequence, to introduce their topic and to provide some closure to the paragraph containing details.  Phew!  That is a lot of work... all along spelling word wall words correctly, capitalizing and using end punctuation.  It's a work in progress!  I'm impressed how far we've come in just a short amount of time.

In word work, we had a pretest on the 5 new words: pick, much, watch, both, and which.  We continue to work on digraphs, both beginning and ending.  This afternoon, we began work jobs for the first official time!  While I'm meeting with groups, students are working independently on such things as word work, book shopping, reading to self, or listening to reading on the computer.  There are a few kinks to work through but for the most part, students did well.

I'll look forward to seeing you this week!