BAILLY'S SUPER WORD OF THE WEEK
VALUE:
hold in respect and admiration
1st GRADE LA
PIG LATIN:
We started this week by finishing up encoding an English sentence into Pig Latin and practice reading it. Next, we almost completed encoding a short song. This took a little longer then planned because we did it as a class at the board. I wanted to make sure everyone translated it correctly into Pig Latin.
This is because..... we will be singing the song in Pig Latin next week!!!! Also, we will only be writing one more time in Pig Latin, I wanted to be sure EVERYONE was understanding it. We've had a couple of Rock Stars that knew Pig Latin from the beginning. We had some more Rock Stars shine when they explained how we would decide if a Y word in our song was used as a vowel or consonant. They remembered our trick, vowels sounds can be 'sung' and consonants sounds are 'trapped'.
2nd GRADE LA
WE MADE SOME CONNECTIONS:
This week there was NO HOMEWORK!
We spent Monday reviewing our chapters. If you've noticed, your child comes home with a packet in their book. The packet is labeled #0 and is NEVER homework, but simply used for tracking details in the book. Each table told us about a chapter from our homework. If that chapter had one of the items we track, they got to put a post-it on our wall. These post-its are quite a big deal for them AND I LOVE IT!! I love to see the excitement they have about the connections they are making!!
Tuesday we worked on a vocabulary web for the first 10 minuets of class. We then used "table talk" to share our chapter 12 Reading Analyzer homework. I wanted the student so see what kind of connections their classmates were making to the reading. I wanted them to discuss what they each thought the main idea of chapter 12 was. When we gathered as a class to share what ideas the tables had in common or disagreed about, it opened up amazing communication in the class about the main idea and the connections they are seeing. It was great to watch the students feed off of each other's statements and how they are understanding Edward's change during his journey.
3rd GRADE LA
BEATRIX POTTER:
Last week we read a short biography on Beatrix Potter. This week we read her short story The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and filled out a Reading Analyzer. I went over the expectations of the Reading Analyzer (RA) because we will be using them for future readings.
The RA, if done correctly and not rushed, is a great tool used to help grab a deeper meaning of what is being read. In third grade we are focusing on interactions. With our RA, we will be digging deeper to help see interactions in our readings as well.
I will give the RAs back next week with remarks on how to dig a little deeper and use more detail from the text to cite evidence to support their ideas. They will use these comments as a guide when filling out their next RA.
4th GRADE LA
CAMPING, SMALL CLASS, AND PHOTOS:
This week we had a very small class because of Camp Goodfellow. With my two students, we worked on biography summery sheets and collecting photos for timelines. Next week I will have the other students from 4th grade and we will do the same. Once Thanksgiving break is over we will go to the computer lab and print pictures. If your child is behind I will send you an email and let you know what needs to be done at home. There has been plenty of class time to stay together. If anyone has fallen behind, it is because they have not been prepared for class with their biography materials.
~Due to me being out of the classroom Thursday, we only had math one day.~
1st GRADE MA
INTRODUCTION AND RULES:
Wednesday I introduced the students to Grupo. The students were able to see the Grupo playing cards and identify the different attributes in the cards. We were looking at the number of sides and vertices of the shapes, shape names, number of shapes inside the larger shape and the kind of inside shapes that made up the outside shape. I demonstrated how the 'dealer' will lay down a 3X3 grid of cards. Each student pair will need to find two cards that have 4 of the 5 attributes matching. If the dealer approves the match, then the team get to keep the cards. The team with the most matches win.
2nd GRADE MA
TRANSFORMATION TRIP:
This week we used transformation to move a triangle over across a worksheet. This worksheet required the students to decide if the triangle needed to slide (translation), flip (reflection) or turn (rotation) to get in next position. The students were given a lose triangle to visualize and perform the transformation. The class graded each others worksheets and will be returned after Thanksgiving.
3rd GRADE MA
GAME CARDS:
If students did not finish their Think Deeply from last week, they were to finish it Wednesday. Once students completed their Think Deeply they moved onto their game cards. The game cards are Think Deeply type questions or problems the student must create. Once they create a card they are then required to solve it. We will be using these cards later in the year. Like a Think Deeply, the game cards also show me if a student understands AND can demonstrate the lesson we have just learned.
4th GRADE MA
THINK BEYOND:
With only having one math class this week and no math class next week, plans had to be switched up a bit. We worked on 2 Think Beyond cards Wednesday. Our Think Beyond cards are similar to a Think Deeply in the questions they ask. However, Think Beyond cards only have the students find the numerical answer, while in a Think Deeply, students need to find the numerical answer along with explaining how the answer was found using math vocabulary and other strategies leaned throughout the lesson. One of the Think Beyond cards was found to be very difficult. Needless to say, they will see this again in our post Thanksgiving review.
