Start Up of Word Study!

This was Esprit's first week of Word Study!  We spent our first week learning about what it looks like and sounds like during word study and practicing word study routines, procedures and responsibilities.

During Reader's Workshop,Team Esprit spent this week practicing a variety of comprehension strategies through our class read aloud, Stone Fox.  We discussed how strong readers envision a story in their heads and make predictions based on what has already happened, what they know about how stories tend to go and empathizing with characters.

In Math, we continued to play games to work on our fluency with subtraction facts.  We also began working with measurement and went on a scavenger hunt for lengths.  We used strategies to fluently add sums, and practiced constructing viable arguments to critique  the reasoning of others.

Using our chromebooks, Mr. Badillo introduced us to Google Docs this week.  We practiced writing sentences on google docs, learned how to give our docs a title,  explored different fonts and font sizes and other options on google docs.  We will continue to use Typing Club to practice our keyboarding skills at school.  If your child would like to practice at home, they can access Typing Club from their home computer.at

In Writer's Workshop we began talking about why writers use paragraphs.  We spent some time using a template to create our own paragraphs in our writing.  We practiced including topic sentences, details and closing sentences when writing paragraphs.

The Esprit Team will be having our pictures taken on Wednesday, October 11th.  Please put that date on your calendar so you can make sure your child is ready for the picture.

Have a terrific weekend, everyone!