Skinny Folders don't mean slower days!!
Have you been wondering why those Friday folders are so skinny?!? We have definitely been as busy as always. Our Navajo folders are brimming with written work reflecting our growing knowledge. We have been addressing many of our other skills and goals in ways that are not currently being reflected in papers going home. Here is a quick rundown on what we have been tackling for the last few weeks:
Reading Workshop:
- The “tools” of good readers - strategies for the girls to use when tackling unfamiliar words in new books
- Continuing to build stamina in reading independently
- Talking about books – comprehension
- Building fluency by practicing our familiar books
- Identifying books that are good for us – not too hard, not to easy
- Connecting texts to ourselves and other texts
- Vowel work
Writer’s Workshop
- Vowel work
- Using lowercase letters
- Creating stories with a beginning, middle, and end
- Using capitals and periods and exclamation marks
- Using speech bubbles
- Writing with non-fiction elements
- Neatness, letter formation, using spaces
- Answering the question, What do good writiers do?
Math Workshop
- Addition
- Subtraction
- Time to the Hour
- Coins
- Two-Dimensional Shapes
- Symmetry
- Number words
Character Education
- Feelings Change
- What to do when you disagree
- Respecting the speaker, being a good listener
- Working as a team
- Working with a partner
- How to deal with a “bad” day
- What does a good friend look like, sound like and feel like?
- Family
I promised myself I would only send you one page, so I will stop. ☺