We strengthened our sound powers by learning to look at not only the first letter of a word, but also blends. We had rhyming fun with word families as well (cat, fat, bat, etc.). We moved letter cards around to create new words.
We published our narrative stories in writing workshop! We visited our neighbors across the hall to celebrate. We will be sending this writing home for you to see next week, but please send them back so we can display them in the hallway. I am collecting all of your child's final pieces and will give them to you at the end of the year.
We had a practice lock down drill on Thursday. We learned how to stay safe in the locked classroom if needed.
We also learned about the many jobs our new president will have.
In Math we read a story called The Sleepover about a girl who has 7 friends over to sleep on her new bunk beds. Some friends like to sleep on the top and others the bottom. We used a math rack (the official name is a Rekenrek) to find out all the ways the 8 girls could arrange themselves on the beds. We learned how to record our ideas and then shared our findings together. Did we find all the possible ways? How can we know for sure? This is one lesson we use towards understanding the many ways to make 10 (0+10, 1+9, 2+8, etc...). We will be working on this a lot in the next few weeks.
News & Notes:
- book sleeves and library books due on Monday
- please make sure to read the YELLOW note that was sent home today. We're hoping to collect 100 boxes of macaroni and cheese by the 100th day of school to donate the the local food bank. If you can send more than 5, please do so!
Working with our math racks
Mastering descending letter 'g"
Our narrative writing anchor chart
Finding all the ways to make 8
A writing celebration with Mrs. Egan's authors! 
Sharing our hard work with new friends! 
Learning to be a respectful listener.
Giving one another compliments.
We are amazing authors!!!
