This Week in Room 3....

May 17 - 21
Reader's Workshop
Guiding Question : How does sequencing events help me to become a better reader? In our mini lessons we will work together to retell familiar stories by sequencing the events. During share time the students will retell books read during independent reading or guided reading.
We will begin administering our end of the year Developmental Reading Assessments. The students must not only read accurately, but fluently also. They must be able to retell the story without any prompts from the teacher. They also should be able to make a connection to the story.
In skills block we will continue with the r controlled vowels..ar and or. Our spelling words for this week are: start, large, yard, smart, shark, more, sport, horse, chore and storm.
The high frequency words for the week are: begin, minute, already, above and against.

Our new unit in Math Investigations is called Bigger, Taller, Heavier, Smaller. In this book, the students will become familiar with the process of measuring. We began this unit by using balance scales to compare the weight of two objects. Next we will work with capacity by filling different containers with sand or blocks. In skills block we will begin adding two-digit numbers without regrouping. ( 12 + 24 )

In Science we compared tomato, daisy and bean seeds and made predictions on which would sprout first. We have been observing their growth. We also planted our own bean seeds and are anxiously watching for them to sprout! We will also be discussing the life cycle of different types of plants.