Happy New Year!

We have begun the new year full speed ahead!  Room 11 has built a tremendous classroom culture.  Those that have volunteered to help in the classroom have commented on what a great class we have and I couldn't agree more!

Things to Note:

• Check out our "class reporters"!  You will find videos that they created on their own to show you what we are learning in Room 11.  They are embedded below.
• Please send back Booktime books on Wednesday.  It is part of our center routine on Wednesdays, unless I am not there and then we do it on Thursday.
• Look for our new classroom pet "Snowball" to be coming home for weekend visits.                                                            
• Pajama day was a hit!  Here they are reading to their stuffed animals
  
  
  
  

Language Arts

• Continued work with the digraphs wh, ch, sh, th & ck

Worked with the "glued sounds" - all, -am & an

Introduced the concept of a suffix:  an ending added to a base word.  We are working with the suffix (-s) to show more than one; making a word plural

Continued to talk about characters and settings

Finished up our small moment unit in writer's workshop.  We looked at authors' to discover how they write.  

Learned how to use ellipses (...), make our words bold, & show movement in our words

   

• We continued to bring our characters to life

Math

• Worked with addition & subtraction
• Focused on a variety of strategies: doubles, doubles plus 1 & 2, make 10, open number line
• Continue to show our thinking on paper 

Social Studies

• Learned about the pilgrims:  why they left England, how they traveled, what they learned from the Native Americans, what the first Thanksgiving was like
• Talked about things we were thankful for