In Reading
Workshop this week we examined story elements: searching for characters, settings and main events
within stories. Nonfiction books don’t
really have these story elements- why not?
We also did a character study of Peppa Pig, reading many of her
adventures!
We began a
new unit in Writing Workshop this week: Persuasive
Writing! Warning: your kids are
learning how to make convincing arguments! J
We looked at model texts and learned how best to begin. We can do more than WISH a problem away, we
can WRITE it away, too!
We
are practicing forming various punctuation marks and knowing when to use them.
We combined
science and social studies this week while learning about Earth Day! We read and wrote books about ways to help
our planet. Keep your eye out for two
new class books! We also launched our
unit on Heredity and Evolution, learning about living vs. non-living things. What’s the difference? Living things grow and reproduce. We are watching things grow in our
classroom!
We pretended
to recycle cans while learning about place value this week. We “collected” cans by ones, tens and
hundreds, put them in sacks and then counted the total of cans collected. We also learned fancy math vocabulary words
while doing Exemplars work.
