Monday, January 7

Hello! Today was a pretty productive day. In Math, we continued to practice our problem solving skills with fractions. I gave them some tough activities and they proved to be really tough. Some children had some trouble with perseverance though and would have rather just given up. Some of the papers are in their orange folders if you'd like to use them toward math log. In Beaded Moccasins, our newest read aloud, Mary Campbell was captured by Delaware Indians to replace the Sachem's granddaughter! It is a really good book and helps to solidify the concepts we are learning in Social Studies as well as helping us to understand historical fiction. Students are reading longer independently this week. We are reading longer books for Book Clubs and with longer historical fiction or other fiction books, they need to read for a longer period of time to gain the information needed to understand what is happening in the book. I am also trying to build stamina up as they are used to only sticking with one thing for about 20 minutes or so. They have a tic-tac-toe activity log to help guide them with their independent reading. In Writer's Workshop, we discussed personal narratives and students are going to be writing their own this week. Finally, we completed some Social Studies, discussing the French and Indian War and the American Revolution. These are tough concepts for kiddos to understand and I'm doing my best to help solidify their understanding. Any insight you can give at home is much appreciated to help with this understanding.