Ella is Student of the Week

Today was an exciting day in our classroom. We started our day with our special of the day, Library. After Library we completed our morning work and had our morning meeting. Each day, Mrs. Miller is teaching us new and exciting greetings at morning meeting. We also practiced our poem of the week, completed our math activities with the calendar, listened to the students sharing and our student of the week and talked about the rest of our day. After morning meeting and morning recess (indoors due to the wind), Mrs. Miller continued reading some of The Runaway Dolls to us. We are enjoying looking at the many illustrations in the book and making predictions. Next it was time to practice sorting our words. We worked with a partner to complete a blind sort of our words. One partner read the words aloud and the other partner pointed to the category that they would belong in. After that it was time for reading groups. Mrs. Miller met with the Books group and Mrs. Peckmann met with the Newspapers and Letters groups. In the afternoon we previewed and read the book that we were going to share with our Kindergarten buddies, Hippo's Toothache (ask me to retell it to you). We read it to a partner to work on our fluency and then we answered many retelling questions citing evidence from the text to support our answers. We would be asking the same questions with our Kindergarten buddies at the end of the day. During math, we paracticed our math facts and took an assessment on addition with regrouping. Tomorrow is Day 6. We have Art. Homework is Jumpstart 9.