April 15 , 2016
THE CARPENTER CHRONICLES
Language:
We finished reading My
Father’s Dragon and wrote
a book response. Then we
voted on our next chapter
book read aloud, and we
chose Lulu’s Mysterious
Mission. (This is the 3rd
book in the Lulu series.) We
read Reader’s Theaters in
small groups to work on
fluency. We sorted pictures
and words with the short
and long vowel sounds of
o. We continued to choose
our own writing topics and
type of writing. Our
choices include: Narrative,
1
Opinion, How To,
Informational, and Digital.
We continued to work on
adding details and
proofreading for
punctuation and spelling.
Mathematics:
Our math focus this
week was measurement.
We read the book
Measuring Penny, and we
charted all the ways people
measure things in every day
life. We designed our own
pets using various
rectangles and squares. We
measured body parts of
our pet using cubes and
inches. We also worked
with a partner this week to
measure ourselves.
Content:
We read the book Iggy
Peck, Architect. We also
read the book Gravity. We
worked with a small group
to build structures using
various materials in our
classroom. Mrs. Carpenter
measured each structure,
and we charted it. Then
we switched materials. We
learned to use different
strategies with different
materials.