Our Week in a Nutshell..

It was so wonderful to meet and chat with all of you this week at parent conferences. It is awesome to have such a supportive group of parents! I told the kids they are VERY lucky to have you. :)

Here's an update about what we've been working on...

In writer's workshop, we are finishing up our unit on Journaling. We are working on revising some of our entries by adding describing words. We made this chart together when we learned about adjectives.

Coming up this week, we will be using pronouns to vary the way we start our sentences. We are also continuing to check our sentences to make sure we use a period and a capital letter.

In reader's workshop, we learned that good readers think about their reading by interacting with the text. 

I modeled these skills in my mini lessons each day using a book called Ginger, which we loved! Then, we went off to practice using our own book bags. 

In word study, we are working on sorting words that start with s, h, and sh. 

We will continue working on other diagraphs (two letters that make one sound, like ch, wh, and th) in the coming weeks.

In math, we are continuing to work with doubles and how we can use doubles as a strategy to add (for example, using 4+4 to help solve 4+5). We are using counters and cubes for much of this unit to help us visualize this tricky concept! 

Finally, in science we recently finished up our bat unit and did some learning about veterans this past week. Here are a few pictures that I will leave you with. Enjoy your night!!