- Please sign up for our April - May Volunteer Calendar
- Please save and send in paper towel rolls and shoe boxes for our sound unit in science. Please send them in by the end of this week. THANK YOU!
- This week readers practiced how to make their reading sound its very best, or how to read like a star. We talked about scooping up words, changing our voices for characters, reading some parts slow and some parts fast, and paying attention to dialogue tags! Readers learned to record themselves reading on Raz-Kids and listen back to see if their reading is like a star. On the app, there are three options under each leveled reader. Headphones, to hear the book read to them; An open book, to read the book themselves; and a question mark to check their comprehension. When they are in the open book option on the top right corner of the screen there is a microphone to record themselves. When they are finished, or at anytime, they can hit the square to stop their recording and then play their recording by hitting the triangle. Try this at home! *You may have to enable the microphone setting for the raz-kids app in your settings on your device.
- Raz-Kids app login: drau0
- student password: banana icon
Save The Date:
- 5/21 - First Grade Field Trip to Oakland University to see the play James and The Giant Peach 9:00-12:00
- 4/18 - Half Day for Students
- 4/19 Good Friday - No school for students
- 5/27 Memorial Day - No School for Students
Learning this week:
- Writer's will...
- get serious about spelling
- take stock of their writing
- celebrate their best realistic fiction writing so far
- Reader's will...
- preview stories to get ready for reading adventures
- use the story line to predict
- retell to retain the story
- Mathematicians will...
- study squares and rectangles
- study triangles and circles
- study equal shares
- compose 2-D shapes
- Scientists will...
- begin our sound study
- discover how bells sound
- discover where sound comes from
- feel the vibrations on our throats when we talk soft and loud
- watch the vibrations from a chime in an experiment
- In phonics we will...
- study when /er/ is not what it seems
- investigate how r changes vowel sounds
Celebrating the end of our readers workshop unit with Mrs. Burks kindergarten friends. We read two books, making our reading sound the best it can, to them.
