Writing workshop-writing our opinions
We started with a collection of beach combing items
First we observed the items and put them in order of our favorite to least favorite.
We then listed reasons why we liked the one item better than the others.
Next we wrote our opinion pieces. Here are a few...
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Then we repeated these steps with a collection of dragons.
Some of our mentor texts for this unit:
Next week they will write about which dog from this book they think should win the My Hero Award.
Learning to find and fix errors in writing:
Math manipulatives, like bundles of tens and ones, help build solid number sense.
When adding two 2-digit numbers, we first add the tens, add the ones, then add the tens & ones together.
Pairs of children we given a bucket of sticks. We combined all our sticks and added them up together by bundling them into 10's, 100's and 1's.
Lexia Core 5 reinforcing skills we are being taught in word study...
glued sounds:
consonant blends:
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vowel teams:
syllable types:
r controls:
suffixes:
We are readers!
Learning about our upstairs and downstairs brain with Ms. Betsy during YOU Skills.
Their latest creation from music class:
A few other books we read and follow up activities....
Sunflowers inspired by Vincent van Gogh
Budding artists!
