20 Stars!
The Munchkins have earned 20 Stars already! Students earn stars when exhibiting excellent effort, showing role model behavior, superb listening skills, and on task behavior when they are in learning spaces outside of our classroom (such as: during specials, recess, and lunch.) Congratulations Munchkins....you are the first class to ever earn 20 stars in September! Keep up the great role model behavior!
As their reward, students voted to have pajama/stuffed animal/cozy blanket day!
The 'new'look of Aims Web
Rather than taking the Aims Web assessments with paper/pencil, this year the students will take these assessments on lap tops. Last week, the students took the reading assessment, and quickly adapted to the new computerized version.
Getting Ready for Guided Reading Groups
During the month of September, we have been launching reader's workshop. The students have practiced all aspects of reader's workshop-read to self, read to someone, work on writing, and listen to reading. Our independent reading stamina has grown from two minutes in the beginning of September to twenty minutes by the end of September. Wow!
In October, students will study of the genre of realistic fiction, as they read realistic fiction books at their instructional reading level. In addition to practicing the various aspects of Reader's Workshop, students have also practiced/will continue to practice comprehension and decoding strategies. Last but not least, the students have been practicing the 'Five finger rule' when choosing 'Just right books'!
Here are some pictures of the munchkins practicing 'read to someone':
Fabulous Job Munchkins!
-Mrs. McCarthy
