We play a lot of games in room 11 because they motivate certain children and are a great way to sneak in practice without anyone realizing what is happening! Today I introduced 'Four Strikes and You're Out' to our math centers. Ask your child how they did. I believe I won the first couple of games, but then they caught on and won a few themselves. Ask your child to play with you after supper tonight.
Punctuation is an on-going hurdle for some students to over come. Today we made an anchor chart for our classroom on how to use periods, commas, exclamation marks, question marks and quotation marks. First we talked about what they looked like, their names and how they were used. Then we used Cynthia Rylant's book Scarecrow to find examples of each one. We loved the story and so we brainstormed what we knew about scarecrows and I gave them a poem about scarecrows that I had taken punctuation out of. Their job was to put it back. All went well so we will begin becoming punctuation detectives and I will be looking for it in all their writing.
Everyone needs a rock at school next week as we begin our Rocks and Mineral unit in science.
No school Friday - system wide PD
Book exchange tomorrow morning - all books should have been returned today.
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