Massimo shined as our “Person of the Week” this week. We were lucky to have his brother join us to read Are You My Mother? It was clear that Massimo was feeling proud to have his brother visitin KB.
The Three Little Pigs
What started out as one student building a house of bricks turned into an entire choice time of teamwork! Once the idea was planted to build the houses for the three little pigs, everyone was on board! A group of friends stuck together to build the house of straw, sticks, and bricks and then proceeded to retell the story of The Three Little Pigs with our puppets. It was a magical moment!
Literacy
Writers in KB have been working hard over the past few weeks. In writer’s workshop students have been introduced to a number of new writing strategies. Our latest strategy has been to challenge ourselves to add details to our words. In order to help us succeed with this challenge we have been learning and practicing 4 new things about sentences: 1.) Sentences always start with a capital letter. 2.) Writers use spaces in between words. 3.) Writers end sentences with a punctuation mark- in KB we will be mostly using either a period or an exclamation mark. We learned that we use a period when we are telling something and an exclamation mark when we want to show we are excited about something. 4.) Our sentences have to match our picture and what our story is about.
We had fun playing around with exclamation marks this week with our poem, “Polly the Penguin”. While reading this poem throughout the week we practiced changing our voice when we noticed an exclamation mark.
“Polly the Penguin”
Polly the penguin loves to play,
She slips and slides everyday!
The arctic is where penguins live.
Across the ice and in the snow,
That’s where Polly likes to go!
Math
We have been working just as hard in math. We have been working hard learning about number stories as well as how to write number sentences to match our number stories. Students have learned “fancy math words” such as “plus”, “minus”, “addition”, and “subtraction”. When writing number stories with a friend students have been practicing listening for important words that help us know if it is an addition or subtraction story (Addition: more joined, more came, more grew. Subtraction: some left, some were eaten, some blew away). Students will be drawing on these skills throughout the next two weeks as our new math unit is introduced: “Bunk Beds and Apple Boxes”. Stay tuned…
