Week 18 in Review

Greetings from Room 119! We had a busy week.  Mrs. D. was able to read with almost all of us for her testing and only has a few more students to read with.  We all made some progress.  The number one thing that you can do for us to help us become better readers is to read to us and let us read to you!  Please carve out a little time each night (right before bed if it's easiest) to read for at least 10 minutes (5 if that's all you have).  Mrs. D. knows this can be hard (since she does this with four of her own kids) but it WILL make a huge difference!  Make it your resolution!

 Speaking of resolutions and New Years, we worked on a portfolio piece this week talking about how we rang in the new year.  We worked hard this week in Writers' Workshop to include a beginning, middle and end to our writing.  Similarly this was something we worked on in Readers' Workshop.  As we read, we had to remember the beginning, middle and end of the story.  This will help us in retells.  Some of us are still having difficulty telling Mrs. D. what happened in the story we read.

 We work for stickers!! This week we worked on the letter C in handwriting and Mrs. D said if we worked hard to recognize the tall, medium and descending letters, she would put a sticker on our page.  She got some GREAT handwriting.  Now that she knows what we can do, she's going to hold us to it.  As we write for homework next week, please make sure we form letters correctly (think top to bottom).

 Math was fun this week.  We now have three volunteers which is making it easier for Mrs. D. to do Math Workshop the way she likes.  She is able to work with small groups of us to really see our thinking and problem solving and help us before we get into bad habits.  This week we focused on "greater than" and "less than" and finding "how much more than."  We didn't get to our math test this week.  With all the reading, Mrs. D. postponed it a week.  We will still do math workshop next week with our wonderful volunteers! If you are able to volunteer she is still looking for volunteers on Tuesday and one more on Thursday.

Working together to talk through thinking and solve problems.

Luke's mom started volunteering this week!  Thank you!!

Sophia's mom also started volunteering this week!  Thank you!!

Happy 7th Birthday Daniela!!!

Mrs. Doran's birthday bag and tooth tote saw a lot of action this week!  We celebrated Daniela's 7th birthday and we lost so many teeth this week that the tooth tote was on a waiting list!  There was a very busy tooth fairy this week because of Room 119!

On Friday, our birthday girl was surprised when HER mom turned out to be our Mystery Reader!  She threw both hands in the air and said, "YES!" Daniela's mom did a wonderful job reading to us. She read us a "Skippyjon Jones" book.  We were all respectful which is good because that is what our school has been working on for our PBS. To learn more about PBS, you can check out the new blog by clicking HERE.

As always, this is just a snapshot of our week.  To see a bit more of what Mrs. D's camera was able to capture, you can click HERE, or check out the video below.