During math this week, we continued to discuss all the ways we can add two numbers together to make 10. For example: 0+10=10, 1+9=10, 2+8=10………8+2=10, 9+1=10, 10+0=10. We practiced using manipulatives to put two groups of numbers together and counted how many we had in all. We also began discussing vocabulary words that tell us when we will be adding two numbers together. What you can do at home: Practice all the ways to make combinations of 10. When students master this they can work on combinations of 20. Ms. Deloney started her student teaching this week and started teaching the students addition strategies and will continue to teach the kids more next week as the students tackle word problems! Then we will move on to subtraction! We will continue our unit on non-fiction books. I will teach students that readers can respond to the text by reading the words then using the pictures to learn even more information. We will practice saying things like, “The words say_____. I also see ______ in the picture and it makes me think ______.
We will discuss that when readers read, they think, “How does this page fit with the title?” They also stop midway to think, “How do all these pages fit together so far?” After reading, they stop again to think, “What is the WHOLE book mostly about?” Readers do a lot of stopping and thinking all along the way to figure out what the book is mostly about. We will also learn that when readers find a topic they are interested in, they can read more than one book on that topic to learn as much new information as they can. During reading groups, we will be reading instructional level texts and using strategies to help us decode words. We will work on fluency and summarizing. Our unit on animals and their habitat lends itself nicely to our unit on non-fiction books as we have been researching about our animals! The students have been given opportunities to demonstrate the mastery of the content in many different ways! Students have written books about animals, made dioramas of animal habitats, made a wanted poster based on an animal, and so much more!
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