Room 235 Newsletter
16-20 January 2017
Interactive Read Aloud
Workboard
Snowballs
The Big Snow
Red Fox Running
Stranger in the Woods
Winter stories, weather/seasons, animal habitats and adaptations,
how animals survive in the winter, using prior knowledge about an
author and various science concepts, making connections
between stories (and science) and having questions after you read
a story. We also talked about positive character traits depicted by
story characters this week, which leads into our social studies work
for the next few weeks about people who make a difference.
Writing: responses to stories, (connecting with science and
providing evidence, making connections with different texts),
writing a letter to a character
Math: “Thinking About Numbers” problems, story problems
ABC: read/sort words, trick words
Write around the room (looking for words with our new glued
sounds), browsing boxes, independent reading, buddy reading,
chart reading
Interactive/Shared Writing, Word Study
Fundations: New glued sounds ank ink onk unk. We compared
Math
Writing Workshop
Science
Working with story problems, reviewing how to organize the
information from the story along with explaining our thinking.
the –nk and –ng glued sounds, reviewed all of our trick words,
We’ve solved problems using open number lines, Base-10 blocks or
“played” with our words of the day (words that represent each
unifix cubes, drawing a picture and counting up in our head or
spelling principle) by manipulating first letters, vowels and
adding/deleting the suffix s to produce new words. We ended the using our fingers. Our first comparison problems required flexible
thinking and most friends thought they were tricky. After we
week with the class’ favorite way to have a dictation. Trick words
worked with a few more, friends felt more competent. Reading a
this week: put two did think.
story problem carefully in order to determine the important
information is essential and a great skill that transfers to any other
Word study: reading/sorting words with the new glued sounds,
make, break and write with this week’s trick words. It’s fascinating type of reading. Friends LOVED playing the Dice Sum game on
to see how well friends are using what they know about reading as Friday. Ask your child about it! We’ll continue to work with this
game next week.
they solve our morning messages, which have become more
complicated. Using the morning message is a great, realistic way
to demonstrate the power of becoming a solid reader who can
solve new words quickly.
We’re taking some time to focus on the mechanics of writing. This Friends used their knowledge of animal habitats, the seasons,
week we worked on sentences, thinking about the subject (or
weather and the water cycle to have a deeper understanding of
naming part) and the verb (telling part), along with three rules for our read aloud stories this week.
writing sentences: Begin each sentence with a capital letter, use
spaces between each word and end your sentence with an
endmark (punctuation).
Notes
*Our next early release day is Wednesday, February 1st. Dismissal
will be 12:30 pm.
*If your child will be absent or late for any reason, please call the
absent/tardy line.
Dismissal Changes
To ensure that we know about a change with your child’s usual
dismissal plan, please send your email to both Alice Marullo and
Stacey Boisvert (same email address except for the names) prior to
8:00 am. If dismissal plans change during the day, call and leave a
message with Francie Sheehan in the office. She’ll get the
message to us. Thank you.
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