Remembrance Day, Literacy, Hamburger Paragraph Writing using Transition Words, and Number Lines!

Remembrance Day:

Our Remembrance Day Assembly was beautiful. Our wreath had messages of peace from everyone as well as beatiful hand drawn poppies. We watched The Poppy Story and remembered and honored those that have fought to make our Country safe and free. 

Literacy Update

For this week we contiued working on making connections when we read. This week we learned more about other Text to Text and Text to World Connections. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wpByvesEMU

We then practiced this strtegy using modeled read alouds and sticky notes. 

We then had some independent practice in our literacy groups using just right reading books and this graphic organizer:

The more we are able to make connections when we are reading the more we are THINKING about what we are reading and building or reading COMPREHENSION.

Hamburger Paragraph Writing

This week we started planning our insect paragraph writing. After spending time reviewing our brainstormed adjectives and verbs to add descriptive details to our sentences we then looked at how we can organize our sentences into a great praragraph of writing:

We also looked at important transition words that can help our paragraph sound better and our writing flow better:

We will continue this next week to further develp our Insect Descriptive writing paragraphs. 

Number Lines

This week we started looking at number lines. 

Number lines are great ways to understand greater than and less than and where numbers fall on a continuim. 

We plotted numbers and looked at negtive and positve numbers in our world. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OS0wzijcxg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OzENFeK8GI

Games:

https://www.funbrain.com/games/line-jumper

Next week we will build our own number lines to 100 and look at using the Number Line to add numbers together!