Math Workshop

Monday-Thursday

?         Monday-Greater than/less than/equal to symbols and activity

?         Tuesday-Greater Than/Less than/Equal to BINGO and worksheet

?         Wednesday-Introduction to odd vs. even numbers; Mr. Even and Mrs. Odd activity; Odd Olly and Even Elly game

?         Thursday-Centers: Writing Egyptian numbers (multiples of 10), odd and even worksheets, Greater Than/Less Than BINGO

Book Clubs

RA=Read aloud

WS=Word   study

?         Stars                 RA=Miss Mary Mack; sight words   WS=s blends

?         Stripes              RA=Scholastic News: Feast in a        WS=Short vs. long a

                                   Forest                                             silent e

?         Washingtons    RA=Scholastic News: Feast in a        WS=Short vs. long a

                                   Forest                                            silent e

?         Lincolns           RA=Nate the Great Goes                 WS=Short e/u/o

                                Undercover

?         Eagles              RA=Henry and Mudge                     WS=dr/gr/tr

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Science

Our Current Unit: Ancient Egypt

?         Autumn: Identification of foods used in Ancient Egypt

?         Gretchen: Foods of the Mississippi River cultures

Themed

Centers

Wednesday

?         Hieroglyphics

?         Egyptian Symbols

?         Journal

?         Toy Lion

Writer's Workshop

?         Continue author study: Marc Brown  (Read-aloud: Arthur's Pet Business)

?         Brainstorming and sloppy copies for Fall Festival fiction stories

?         Continuation of group stories

Math Workshop

Monday-Thursday

ADDITION FACT WEEK

?         Monday-Tallying combinations of dice; create Halloween addition stories

?         Tuesday-Share and solve Halloween addition stories; domino sums; unifix cube fact combinations

?         Wednesday-More domino sums and unifix cube fact combinations

?         Thursday-Shortcuts to addition; Addition centers/games-Addition Top-It, "Create a Fact Kite" game, dice facts graphing

Book Clubs

RA=Read aloud

WS=Word   study

?         Stars              RA=Zac the Rat; Jan and Dan         WS= -at vs. -an

?         Stripes           RA=My Five Senses; Fall Is               WS=Short vs. long o,

                                                                                     silent e                                           

?         Washingtons  RA=Miss Frizzles's Adventures          WS=Short vs. long o,

                                 in Ancient Egypt                                silent e

?         Lincolns         RA=Nate the Great                         WS=j/dr/gr

?         Eagles            RA=Egyptian skit                            WS=Medial m and n

Science

New Unit: Egypt and the Nile

?         Autumn and Gretchen: Video="Mysteries of Egypt"

?         Presentation on modern Cairo, Egypt by Pauline Kaldas

Centers

Wednesday

?         Journal

?         Halloween writing

?         Create an ancient Egyptian

?         Ancient Egyptian gods and goddesses matching

Writer's Workshop

Tuesday and Thursday

?         What are nouns? What are adjectives?

?         Finding nouns and adjectives in a photograph

?         Introduction to 12 Days of Halloween song format

?         Brainstorm nouns and adjectives for individual 12 days of Halloween songs

News

?         We celebrated Nicholas' birthday on Friday.  He turned 8 years old.

?         Next Wednesday, the 31st, we will be going to Hollins for a Halloween party.  Please send your child's costume to school in a bag.