In Writing Workshop, our narrative pieces became even better as we worked on elaboration techniques. Everyone tried to describe small moments within their stories with greater detail. We were also very aware of needing to end sentences with punctuation and begin new sentences with a capital letter.
In math this week we worked on counting and keeping track of larger quantities, making a representation of a set of data and seeing one-to-one correspondence between that set of data and the representations we made. We all chose to represent our data using various strategies, so we shared our ideas.
We wrapped up our study of geography by playing the best game! Mr. Warble labeled the room with north, south, east and west and we used the class map that we made, along with these directions, to guided a partner to a hidden object. Students were choosing to play this game during Choice Time all week long. It was wonderful to overhear: "Turn west and walk straight", and then squeals of delight as the objects were found.
We had Infinite Roots, an African percussion group, visit our school on Thursday. Wow! They were amazing! They formed a band of students and everyone danced to the African rhythms. Reed and Julianne were chosen to be in the band! See the photos below.
On Zoo Day, we sang zoo songs, read zoo books and added zoo animals. We even created a zoo animal from the numeral zero! Finally, we had quiet time reading our favorite books to our animals. What a fun day!
News and Notes:
- Book sleeves due on Monday. Please return all books for summer inventory.
- 6/5 FIELD DAY (hopefully!) 1:45-3:15 pm
- Please check your child's theme day sheet (or post below) in preparation for the next 2 weeks!
- all parents invited to our end of year celebration on 6/13 from 2-3 pm for a craft, a snack, and some free play with your child.
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| A bunch of clubs' character trait webs! |
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| Character research in a club |
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| Learning an African dance |
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| "Infinite Roots" |
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| Making a representation of a set of data |
