Monday

Wow, last week was busy hence, not a lot of blog posts. Sorry!  It's a new week!

We are working hard on subtraction.  It is a difficult concept. We are using Unifix cubes to regroup. Children are able to break apart the 10 trains in order to make more ones if needing to regroup. Again, we are taking it slowly.  There is a subtraction game that came home for homework tonight.

In computer lab today, we learned about Google Classroom.... fun! Students typed an assignment and submitted it via the Chromebooks. It's just like handing out paper and passing it in to the finished work tray but minus the paper!  We did Weekend News this way.  I hope to do a lot more with reading group work or just journal writing in general.  Stay tuned! Children need to learn to compose their writing on the computer so this is a good way to do it.

In word work, we learned the difference between a blend and a digraph.  A blend is 2 or more letters combined where you can hear all the sounds (ex. 'st', 'bl', 'cr').  A digraph is 2 letters combined to make one sound. We searched for words with blends during guided reading work jobs.

We read another Ladybug book: The Very Inappropriate Word. Students are writing summaries of these books for their Write about Reading work job.   Finally, we began working with the terms compare and contrast. We looked at 2 pictures of scarecrows and found the similarities and the differences.

Homework went home today.  Let me know if you have any questions.