Friends~This week, in preparation for our November 1st PD, I wanted to touch on Balanced Literacy. Please visit the below post from The Reading Mama as a refresher on BL! We will be focusing on Balanced Literacy in our reading session during our district wide PD. Be sure to click through on the links...lots of good stuff!
A simple video discussing the components of Balanced Literacy!
Morning Meeting: The Gratitude Game
Instructional Strategies!
Kindergarten Reading
RiK.2 With prompting and support, identify the main topic and identify key details in a text.
RL.K.2-With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.
Kindergarten Math
K.G.3 Identify shapes as two dimensional (lying in a plane, “flat”) or three dimensional (“solid”)
First Grade Reading
RL.1.2. Retell familiar stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.
First Grade Math
NBT.1 Count to 120, starting at any number less than 120. In this range, read and write numerals and represent a number of objects with a written numeral.
Second Grade Reading
RI 2.1 Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
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Second Grade Math
2NBT.4 Compare 2 three digit numbers using HTO and <,>, =
Third Grade Reading
RL 3.9 Compare and contrast the themes, settings, and plots of stories written by the same author about the same or similar characters.
Third Grade Math
3.0 A.5 Apply properties of operations as strategies to multiply and divide.
Friends~This week in my leadership training we discussed educating and supporting the whole child. I wanted to examine this idea a bit more. This Ted Talk video really zones in on the social development of children. It really explains the developmental growths at specific ages and how understanding those stages can improve how effective we are in the classroom.
I LOVE this quote! "Teachers, you don't teach a subject, you teach a child." ~Deepa Behushan
RiK.2 With prompting and support, identify the main topic and identify key details in a text.
RL.K.2-With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.
K Math
K.CC.2
Counting forward from a given number
K.CC.4
Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities; connect counting to cardinality.
First Grade Reading
RL.1.2. Retell familiar stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.
First Grade Math
NBT.1 Count to 120, starting at any number less than 120. In this range, read and write numerals and represent a number of objects with a written
numeral.
Second Grade Reading
RI 2.1 (Nonfiction)
Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
Second Grade Math
2NBT.1 Understand that the three digits of a three-digit number represent amounts of hundreds, tens, and ones; e.g., 706
Third Grade Reading
RL.3.7 Explain how specific aspects of a text’s illustrations contribute to what is conveyed by the words in a story (e.g., create mood, emphasize aspects of a character or setting).
RL.3.1 Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
3 OA 5 - I can identify and explain the identity property of zero, commutative, associative, and distributive properties of multiplication.
3 OA 5 - I can decompose numbers to use distributive property.
Ex: “10 x 5 is the same as (5x5) + (5x5)!!”
Enhancement Connections
Music:
Art:
PE:
K-3 Nearpod Lessons to try!
Click below to watch a video all about Nearpod in the classroom!
Friends~I came across an article this morning from a site called Motherly. It really spoke to me and made me reflect on how we speak, question, and guide children. I also love how the idea a Montessori education alines with many of our Empowerment Strategies. I wanted to share the article with you. Click the words below!
1. I saw you working hard, made a great connection to the idea of growth mindset. I know many of you are beginning to use growth mindset in your classrooms and I encourage you to begin to praise the hard work more than the product. The more we do so, the more our students will see that they can accomplish learning through hard work and perseverance. 3. Where can you look for that? Such an easy way to foster independence and self direction in students. Empowering them to drive their own learning. M-10 Student Engagement 5. In our school...we do what's best for students and teachers! M-1 Culture of Caring
If you have interest in learning more about Montessori Classrooms check out the video below!
I challenge you to watch the video and think about our Mpowerment Strategies. It is amazing how many connections can be made with this philosophy of education.
Instructional Strategies Week 9
K Reading Review
RI.K.1- With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Math Review
1st Grade
Reading Review
Math Review
1.OA.8 Determine the unknown whole number in an addition or subtraction equation relating three whole numbers. For example, determine the unknown number that makes the equation true in each of the equations 8 + ? = 11, 5 = _ – 3, 6 + 6 = _.
Second Grade
Reading Review
Math Review
Focus: RL 2.2
Recount stories including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, (including American Indian stories) determine their central message, lesson, or moral.
Third Grade
Reading Review
RL 3.5 Refer to parts of the poem when writing or speaking about the text.
Math Review
3.OA.3 Use multiplication and *division within 100 to solve word problems in situations involving equal groups, arrays, and measurement quantities, e.g., by using drawings and equations within a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.
Happy Planning!
