April 8, 2019

Hello Families, 

We went outside for our Phys. Ed. today and learned (or replayed) a super fun game called Go for the Gold! Everyone had tons of fun! It will be a great game for us to play outside on days when the sun is shining like it was today. 

We learned about adding descriptive words (or adjectives) to our writing to stretch our sentences.  First, we shared about our weekend experiences, with a focus on describing one specific thing, for example, one student shared they had a chocolate donut covered in sprinkles and it was "sticky".  Another student shared that when they were ice skating, the ice was "shiny and slippery". Students were challenged to add 1, 3 or 5 descriptive words to their journal writing today. We also worked together to add descriptive words to my sentence, "On the weekend I went for a run." by adding "On the weekend I went for a speedy, sunny run."

We are learning new things in math, too! Last week we learned a new game called Golf (may be different from the version you play at home) to practice fact fluency for addition and subtraction. Many students are having some difficulty with the understanding that in a subtraction sentence, the largest number comes first. Today, we practiced some new word problems for some real life problems I had over the weekend, for example:

Mild Task

Ms. Brown made granola bars on the weekend. She wants to eat two (2) bars each day for the whole week, including the weekend. How many granola bars does she need to make?

Color Days!! 

We are also beginning a super fun exploration of color, descriptive language and story telling tomorrow! Every day for the next 8 days, students will be asked to wear a different color. We are working with a wall story about colors and feelings to target building fluency through repeated sentence structure connecting feelings to color, building color vocabulary, descriptive feeling word, and sight word recognition. Here's the color schedule:

Tuesday, April 9 - wear YELLOW

Wednesday, April 10 - wear ORANGE

Thursday, April 11 - wear WHITE

Friday, April 12 - wear RED

Monday, April 15 - wear GREY

Tuesday, April 16 - wear GREEN

Wednesday, April 17 - wear BLUE

Thursday, April 18 - wear PURPLE

Any shade of the color is perfect as we are hoping to have a large variety within each color to help us develop the descriptive vocabulary and organize ourselves from lightest to darkest. Please do not feel obligated to buy anything new, the closest color will be just fine!

Take care, 

Lindsay Brown