Thank you to
everyone who came to parent conferences yesterday! If you were unable to make
the conference and would like to set up another time, please email me: csantullo@bpsk12.org
Winter is
approaching! I can’t believe it’s already December.
Here are some
things we learned this week:
In Math:
- Started Topic 6-Mental Addition
- Add groups of Ten
- Math Vocabulary: mental math, tens
digit, next ten
- Explain how to solve a problem using
mental math, such as, 28+20
- Students started to mentally add a
two-digit number and a one-digit number
- Used single ten-frame mats, and double
ten-frame mats
In Reading
- In FUNdations, we started learning
vowel consonant e syllable types
- Introduced new trick words; often,
house, move (Santullo/Nelson) and against and once (McLaughlin/Siegel)
- In reading groups: one group started
reading Squanto: Friend to the Pilgrims, second group: Pocahontas:
A Friend to the Colonists
- Continued working on turning questions
into statements when answering a questions
- Practiced highlighting information in
the text before answering a question
- Discussed Proper Nouns
In Science:
- Mr. Musselman and
- We made a KWL chart on what students
already knew about Reptiles and what they want to learn about Reptiles
- Introduced the four reptiles; snakes,
turtles, crocodiles, and lizards
- Worked on a reptile sort
In Writing:
- Modeled how to write a procedural
letter
- Students started a rough draft of procedural
letter to their kindergarten teachers
- Wrote to kindergarten teachers on how
to help their students to sit on the rug
Have a great
weekend!
Miss Santullo J
