Showing posts with label focus question. Show all posts
Showing posts with label focus question. Show all posts

Monday, September 26, 2011

Fourteenth Day

Today was our first official day of study for unit 1. We began with the focus questions for the week: What do you like to do? What makes you special and unique? We used this week's vocabulary words in sentences. We read the realistic fiction selection: That Big Cat. We used the comprehension strategy of analyzing the text structure. About half of the class is getting very good at identifying the middle of a story. We used word building cards for the first time to begin work with '-an' and '-at' words. There is a homework sheet to go with these words for tonight.

In math we introduced addition sentences generated from a model.

Please do not forget that tomorrow (Tuesday) is our first banked time day and student dismissal is 1:04.