Dear Parents,
We will be starting a new unit on Thursday on Economics. We will start with wants and needs and move on to goods and services. We are in need of many magazines. The kids will be using the magazines to cut out pictures of things they need and things they want. We also will be using them to cut out pictures showing services and goods. If you have any magazines at home that would be appropriate please send them in tomorrow.
Writing-Today we continued to work on our animal stories. Keep checking in with your child about their story? Ask your child what the problem and solution are in their story.
Tech lab-We went to the tech lab to work on a holiday present for you! Shhhhhhhh! Its' a surprise!
Reading- I met with two more groups today. Ask your child if I met with their group.
Have a great night,
Donna
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Monday, November 29, 2010
Monday Horizon News
Dear Parents,
I hope you all enjoyed your Thanksgiving break. The kids were ready to get to back to work today! Today we started a writing unit on fiction. We talked about fiction and nonfiction. We decided to write some fictional stories with animals as the character. Ask your child what their animal is? Have they named their animal? Can tthey tell you the who, where, what, why and when of their story? We will continue with these stories over the next few weeks.
I met with three guided reading groups. Ask your child if I met with their group today. The mini lesson for today was reading Froggie's Little Sister.
We talked about the who,where, when etc of the story. The author uses onomat0poeia in his writing. This is a term used to describe words that actually describe the noises they depict such as boom. Ask your child if they can remember some words they found. They will be using this in their own animal stories.
Reading Logs......I anticipated some confusion this morning when reading logs were or were not handed in. I've decided to give another freebee for this log. Please remember that there is a log due this Friday also for this week.
Can you believe December 1st is on Wednesday???
Donna
I hope you all enjoyed your Thanksgiving break. The kids were ready to get to back to work today! Today we started a writing unit on fiction. We talked about fiction and nonfiction. We decided to write some fictional stories with animals as the character. Ask your child what their animal is? Have they named their animal? Can tthey tell you the who, where, what, why and when of their story? We will continue with these stories over the next few weeks.
I met with three guided reading groups. Ask your child if I met with their group today. The mini lesson for today was reading Froggie's Little Sister.
We talked about the who,where, when etc of the story. The author uses onomat0poeia in his writing. This is a term used to describe words that actually describe the noises they depict such as boom. Ask your child if they can remember some words they found. They will be using this in their own animal stories.Reading Logs......I anticipated some confusion this morning when reading logs were or were not handed in. I've decided to give another freebee for this log. Please remember that there is a log due this Friday also for this week.
Can you believe December 1st is on Wednesday???
Donna
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
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