Mrs. Henry's Classroom: Newsletter 10/14/16

We worked with reading partners for the first time in Reading Workshop this week. We learned the difference between "private" and "partner" reading. We also began to learn about what reading partners do: how they sit, hold the book, and what they talk about. Ask your child to teach you how to "See-Saw" read! See some reading partners in the photos below.

We are almost done learning the "Frog Jump" letters in our handwriting lessons. Look for review practice to come home next week. We are learning how to spell more sight words and trying to write with spaces between words. We will be working on this all year. We also learned how writers often have so much to say that they need to add more pages.

Besides writing with spaces, we also were introduced to syllables. Have fun listening to how many syllables are in words at home. Who in your family has the most syllables in their name? The least?

In our math lessons, we did a "math hands" activity, trying to replicate numbers on our fingers up to five. We also reviewed how to organize our thinking during an Exemplars problem. We re-did the problem we tried last week, and this time, we were SO much better! We collected and organized data as well, finding out who our class thinks is the scariest Halloween character!

We finished our study of Christopher Columbus by meeting our 5th Grade Buddies! They came to our room and helped us make ships. We'll be working with them monthly, so see if your kindergartner remembers his/her buddy's name. See some photos of our Buddy Time below.

We enjoyed an assembly about the adventures of Lewis and Clark today, too. Some of our friends were chosen to go on stage!

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