What's going on in Room 25? Read all about it!

We have been very busy this month diving into our new units of study across reading, writing, and math. I have established most routines, which is giving me some time to meet with individual groups and small groups to meet the individual needs of your little ones. In our mini lessons, we have been been working hard to establish foundations across all subjects. Check out what we're working on!

Writer's Workshop: We are working through our unit of Journaling. This unit allows students to keep a journal of memories, feelings, or things that have happened to them. We have been talking about what a journal entry must include (the "who" and "what happened"). My mini lessons have been focused on writing complete sentences, adding important details to each entry, and adding feelings. I am so impressed with all the writing that's happening! We are working to build our stamina too so we can write for even longer each day.

Reader's Workshop: We have been learning many strategies to tackle tricky words. I am teaching your growing readers to use many strategies when a word pops up that they don't know. Often, students try to rely on the strategy of sounding the word out. However, there are many many times this strategy does not work! I am training everyone to rely on other strategies, like thinking about what would make sense, what looks right, what sounds right, or what clues the text or pictures gives. Please encourage the use of all of these strategies as your read with your child at home. You may want to use the strategy card I passed out at Open House to guide them.

Word Study: We are continuing our word sort routines with short "u" words this week. We have been sorting words that end with "up", "un" and "ut". Students will be coming home with a practice sheet for this on Thursday.

Math: We are working through our subtraction unit. This week, we are focusing specifically on bar models and using subtraction to figure out the missing "part". This can be a tricky concept, especially this early in the year! Please work with your child on their homework and support them as they work through this.


A Few Reminders...

- All book orders need to be in by Friday. I will be submitting the ones I have received this week. Remember that you can order online too!

- Today your child brought home the coupon books. If you do not want to purchase it, it must be returned to school! If you would like to keep it, please send money in. I am responsible for turning in either a book or money for every child.

Thanks so much! Have a great night!