Dr. Johnson's Reading Blog

Thank you to all parents during this time! Your support has been a blessing!!! Because COVID numbers are really going up, I am going to really emphasize to students the importance of continuing with staying at their seats, cleaning their hands, and keeping masks over their noses. We all want to make sure we are healthy especially before we head to the Christmas Break in a few weeks. You should have heard by now that Dec. 21 and 22 will be virtual. During those two days I should be in California (it's the only time my kids get to see their grandparents), so I'm looking forward to doing some live Google Meets from the Central Valley. I'm hoping to show them where our food comes from and how it's grown, oil pumps, and if the air is clear, showing them the geography of the Sierra Nevada mountains. Of course, who know what will happen in the next couple of days, so I may end up staying in town. On Wednesday, we will start a mini simulation of the Stamp Ace, Sugar Act, Townsh...

I made a quick video that shows what the physical space looks like in our classroom.  

 As we move into Phase 2 next Wednesday, November 4, I wanted to send out some reminders, and some new information: All students returning to school should bring their school supplies. All school supplies will remain separate and used by only the child. Supplies will be kept in their cubbies and/or backpack. Here is a list of school supplies: a pair of scissors 4 composition notebooks (reading, writing, science, social studies) Spiral bound notebooks are fine 4 folders (any color) Art Supplies Crayola Markers Crayola Pencils Crayola Crayons (I don't remember if you need multi-colored construction paper) Multi-colored set of Sharpies Multi-colored white board markers and eraser (I use these for my mini whiteboards) 2 packs of pencils Colored highlighters pencil box (to keep personal  supplies  in) (optional) Mechanical pencils (.7 mm or larger) with extra lead if you get mechanical pencils for your child, then you don't need to bring in packs of pencils All students are re...

Now that we are half-way through the first quarter, I will be emailing an interim report letting you know how your child is doing with virtual learning so far. I am spending this week meeting one-on-one with students, discussing the interim. If you have any questions please let me know.

 Since there were some who were unable to attend our virtual curriculum night, and I neglected to record it, here is a link to the Google Slideshow I presented.

 Here is the link to our Regions Project. Regions Project

 We got our first full week completed using an our all-day schedule. This week we learned the following: We completed our read aloud of Skinnybones . We are going to move to our first major reading aloud called Blood on the River . This is the story of the formation of Jamestown - the first successful English colony in America. If you don't have a copy of the book I still have a a few paper copies. If not I will be broadcasting the book on Google Meet using the Kindle Cloud reader. It's not necessary to have the book but being about to read along with helps with reading skills because students can see the text as I read just like a book on tape. It will be imporant that ALL log into our read aloud for this. We are still learning how to turn in work using Google Classroom. Many students complete their work but forget to click on the big green "Turn In" button when finished.   In math students learned / reviewed the value of base-10 block then transferred that informati...