Friday, May 4, 2018

Newsletter 5/4/18

In Reading Workshop this week we learned new activities and games that we can play with our partner.  We made a list of words that we can use to describe a character's emotions other than "happy" and "sad".  Then we played "Guess the Feeling" with our partners.  We also compared our books during partner time.  Students had conversations like:
"In my book Marshmellow the Horse eats apples." 
"He does in mine, too!"
 "Is his owner in your book?"
 "No."

In math, we put numbers in order from least to greatest and played a teen BINGO game with Mrs. Coyne.

In science, we began our unit on living and nonliving things.  We tried to sort photos of items and put them in the correct category.  We wondered, "What do living things need?".  We observed living things and recorded what we noticed in our science notebooks.

We are adding even more tools to our Persuasive Writing Toolbox!  We read I Wanna Iguana as a mentor text, because in that book the child convinces his mom to get him an iguana!  We are trying to write like him.

We had a wonderful field trip.  We studied map keys and symbols, and then we went out and used the map to find our way to various destinations at the nature center.

News and Notes:

  • Book sleeves are due on Monday.
  • Scholastic book orders are due on Tuesday.
  • Please let me know if your child will not be in school next Friday.  We have treats for our moms to bring home!  

Organizing numbers from least to greatest

Teen BINGO

Our persuasive writing anchor chart







Frogs!

Turtles!





Living vs. Nonliving

Beginning to sort out our scientific ideas