This week in reading workshop we talked about making predictions: thinking about what is happening, using what you know, and what you see in the book to predict what you think will happen next. We also practiced making predictions based on the patterns in books- familiar patterns like the alphabet and growing patterns such as The Jacket I Wear In the Snow.
In writing workshop we finished our unit on narrative writing. The children each had an opportunity to share a piece of writing that they felt was their best work. It is amazing to see how much progress the children have made and how excited they are about writing! Next week we will start a unit on informational writing.This week in math we started a unit on understanding addition as joining sets of objects. The children listened to math stories about objects and had to figure out how many there were in all. We also practiced fluency by playing 5 frame cube. The children have a 5 frame and 5 cubes. I roll a die (the 6 is 0) and the children have to make the number that is shown, then say a math sentence to go with it. For example, if I rolled a 4 to start, the children would have to put on 4 cubes and say 0+4=4. If I then rolled a 1, the children would have to take off 3 cubes so that 1 remained, then say 4-3=1.
