Reader’s Workshop

Ask your child: Ask me to summarize Meet Felicity.

This book helped me learn more about colonial life.

What book are you reading during independent reading?

This week I read many poetry books. As I read these books, I ask can I make a picture in my mind? Does this writing help me look at something in the world in new ways? Does this writing give me a certain feeling or make me think or questions? Does this poem have music?

I continue to learn strategies to help me figure out unknown words when I read. Ask me a few strategies. Examples: using picture clues, skip and go on, context clues, other words around the unknown words.

I continue to practice the reading comprehension strategy, asking questions, before and during my reading of books, articles, texts.

I am learning to make inferences when I am looking for information in a text.

As I read to learn about colonial life, I am using an alphabox to record key words to help me remember what I have read. I am making a comparison chart of colonial life to modern day life.

Writer’s Workshop: Ask your child: I am a poet! This week I have been learning

strategies poets use to write poems. As a poet I am finding a moment, detail or

object that holds a big feeling. I am using my poets’ eyes and seeing this ordinary thing in a new way! Poets write about it experimenting with line breaks.

I am trying to read my poems with “music” in my voice!

Writer’s Workshop: Ask your child: I learned how to make a “Give It A Shot” chart to use as I edit

my poems for spelling. As I write poems I can use precise descriptive words. As I

reread my poems I ask if the words create the image I want for my readers.

As I write poems I can use patterns and repetition of sounds, words, and lines. I am also using onomatopoeias in my poems

I can make comparisons over many lines in my poems.

Mrs. Smoral’s Class Dec. 8, 2018

Math Workshop: Ask your child: Ask me to tell you the calendar markers on the December Calendar

Grid. This month we will learn about two-dimensional shapes in Number Corner!

Ask me how many vertices are in the shapes listed below in the math vocabulary.

I am learning about expanded form. Ask me tell you some three and four digit numbers in expanded form.

I solved story problems created by my classmates. I know I need to write an equation and show my work when I solve story problems.

I am learning about the number 1,000! Ask me what I know about this number!

Ask me about the new math Work Place games.MATH VOCABULARY: vertex, vertices, isosceles triangle, scalene triangle, equilateral triangle, trapezoid, vertex, vertices, congruent, symmetry, expanded form

Word Study: Ask your child: I ask myself this question as a speller…Does the word look

right? When I find a word that does not look right, it can help me to spell the word a few different ways, looking to see if one looks right.

Ask me the sounds bossy r makes in words. I continue to use word families I have learned to help me spell

words. I am spelling words in syllables.

New Vocabulary Words

Ask your child to define, syllabicate and use these words in a sentence.

hesitate weary abandon misunderstand prosperous

Learning Experiences

Special Happenings Ask your child: Ask me about Mrs. Gilliland’s guidance lesson! Ask me about the elf ornament I made with my

picture! Ask me about making Rudolph! Ask me about the picture I drew after I listened to

the Polar Express! Have a GREAT weekend!