Whew - almost there!
I'll keep it short and sweet today ~
Math: We took a formative and spent most of the class evaluating real written explanations from our class to clarify the expectation. Homework is to complete the graphing worksheet and subtraction with regrouping. Also, Graph Club is a program that can be purchased, not a web-based activity.
Reading: Discussed and identified text features as a whole group and independently. Tomorrow we will look to classify the various features and develop some categories that describe how the specific feature helps the reader. I also met with some of the students for a writing conference.
Social Studies: Built upon our resource knowledge by discussing the concepts of goods and services.
A note on spelling ~
Spelling is a two-week cycle. Most of the first week is spent exploring the letter patterns that represent the same sound. The class list is developed using words the students find in their independent reading tasks - could be the assigned book from small group. We build a class list using these words and I choose 5 words that everyone should have, and the students are then supposed to select an additional 5 words they believe to be challenging for them. Usually, the first cycle is a learning experience in that students either have a low bar for themselves or they are taking the autonomy a little to casually...Either way, based on a friendly reminder and clarification of the expectation, the lists should look a bit more appropriate going forward. Please, if you have any questions about this shoot me an email.
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