Sep
Week 6- The Flow of Reading Groups
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Please remember that September’s home project is DUE MONDAY! 9/30
I will give the details for October’s book report this coming week, so look under the “Home Project” tab at the top of our blog soon!
Thank you Level 1 parents for returning your child’s reading! I call them book baggies…but overall, I am receiving 7/9th of them. Please make sure you send them back EVERYDAY. I check the box to make sure you signed off their nightly reading. Before they went home this weekend I gave them a new book for the week. Please make sure they are reading it 4 nights out of the week. I saw some lovely flash cards in some of the baggies, so thank you for helping out your child! I spoke with Nancy and even if your child finds the book very easy it is very important they still do the reading! Nancy’s program will get harder, but the goal is to build fluency and speed!
I have been doing reading groups everyday with Level 1s and some other levels. I call them my pink reading group. We read in the morning right after Morning Meeting and before time test.
I read with those who are on a Pre-Primer and Primer level 2x’s a week. Those on a 1st grade level read with me also 2x’s a week. 2nd grade level reads on Tuesdays with Ms. Jill, 3rd grade level on Wednesdays with Ms. Holly, and 4th grade level on Thursdays with Ms. Krista. Those who are 5th and higher, which is 2 students in our class, will have their own group. There might be a group later on for those who read at this level, but for now, I will have them read on Thursdays in our class.
We had our 1st Spelling test this week! Spelling tests are every Thursday.
Start thinking about if you would like to come to Black Island Farms on October 24th. I’d like to know who my certified drivers are, so if you did the background check program since being at MMA, please let me know so I can start working on that.
After lunch on Mondays and Tuesdays is our Writer’s Workshop time. We have been learning about different methods of story telling for the past couple of weeks. This coming week we will take a break to make time for all the home projects.
This week in groups lessons:
Level 1s: Polygon drawer
Level 2s: Reflex/Convex angles
Level 3s: Classification of Triangles
In cultural:
History: No History
Zoology:
Level 1s: My vertebrate book
Level 2s: Whales
Level 3s: Jellyfish
Geography:
Level 1s: Hemispheres N & S
Level 2s: Tectonic plates map
Level 3s: Atmospheric layers
Botany:
Level 1s: Food from plants
Level 2s: Blade: Simple/compound
Level 3s: Kinds of flowers overview
Hope you all had a lovely weekend. Enjoy your Sunday!
Cheers!
Ms. K