Classroom Update

Sorry for the delay...lots going on...but here's ALL the news!

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Spring Ahead!

My camera battery died on Friday, so I will post pictures tomorrow. I have one more picture to take before I post the students who read last week. Sorry! We finished up our inferring unit and will be spending the next week or so looking at characters and their traits. We will also be looking at how characters change in the story and what the trigger was to cause the change. We are moving into expository writing using persuasion. We are debating topics to do research on and then will learn how to take the research and write a persuasive piece. We are beginning our unit on fractions in math beginning Monday. Enjoy the great weather!

Catching Up!

Last weeks readers as well as Monday and Tuesday's

We've been working on measurement and then using the date to determine the middle value. Tomorrow we will work on frequency as well as mode. Here we are measuring our arm spans and how far we can jump (collecting measurement data)

Our new hot read as well as a buddy, Pete the Cat:

We are savoring the moments as we anticipate reading the new Hot Read. A new Pete the Cat is coming out soon and I'll be sure to purchase it as well! Just a note that report cards will come home on Friday March 16.

Week of Feb. 27-March 2

Sorry this is such a late post, but I've been sick this week and I focused on the students instead. And, because of this, I don't have pictures of all the kids as child of the day, so I'll post those this week.

We continue to use Chris Van Allsburgs books to work on the reading strategy of inferring. In this picture, Sophie shared with the class where she found a clue about The Stranger (the book we read) that we had missed. GREAT JOB, Sophie! We also spent time writing our persuasive letters and how to include powerful reasons. We also wrote letters to a 5th/6th grade class who are taking ISAT tests this week. We wanted to encourage them to do well. Friday was Read Across America day in honor of Dr. Seuss's birthday. Here are a few pictures of how we honored the day:

We enjoyed listening to Owen read to the class on Friday! Great reading, Owen! We began our new math unit on Thursday. We also started our new EM journals and sent home the previous one. Use this books to review skills with your child. We finished reading The Gardens of Abdul Gasazi and took a look at the them of magic in this book as well as other Chris Van Allsburg books. Students then wrote a response as to what they thought the author wanted us to learn about magic. In our persuasive writing unit we took a look at how we can make our arguments stronger. We also looked at capital letters and punctuation. Have a good night.

We listened to two great readers, Brendan and Alyssa as they read to the class. In addition to updating out calendar, leading us through the pledges, part of the child of the day's job is to read to the class. They both did a GREAT job! Yesterday was a switch day. Upon the students return to the classroom, we worked on words and then math. Today we continued with our inferring strategies, but also wrote a persuasive argument (part of the common core state standards) about the main character in the Gardens of Abdul Gasazi. This tied in well with our writing as we are also learning about persuasive arguments. During math time we worked on math facts and patterns in math. Here we are writing our persuasive arguments:

Today we read more about The Gardens of Abdul Gasazi, focusing on how the main characters feelings change through the book. We will review our responses Thursday. We also wrote letters today to thank our Junior Achievement volunteer from last Thursday. As I read them it was amazing as to how much the students learned. We also practiced our math facts. Tomorrow is a switch day and we will follow our Monday schedule. We will have P.E., music, art, and our ESL integration time. Thursday we will be back to our regular schedule. Keyla was our child of the day and we enjoyed listening as she read: