Mrs. Henry's Classroom: March 29, 2019

We celebrated all we've learned in reading nonfiction books this week! Everyone went to the library to read various texts on an animal: some read books, some used informational websites. Everyone gathered information about their animal and then got together in their animal groups to compare their findings. We learned that when someone wants to learn about a specific topic, it's useful to use various sources, that way, we learn more! We shared our findings with one another and then worked as a team to design a group poster, highlighting all that we learned about our animal. See the photos below.

In Writer's Workshop, we used a partner to help us think of more to write in our books. Everyone is working on elaboration, adding more information to our text and illustrations, too. We are also continuing to work on beginning sentences with a capital letter and ending with a period.

We worked with numbers 50-79 this week, building them with tens and ones, putting them in order from least to greatest and completing number lines with missing numbers. We are working on understanding place value and strengthening our ability to count forward from any number, up to, and sometimes beyond, 100.

Geography has been so much fun! We began the week by looking at various maps and noticing what was the same and what was different. Then, we began to understand our place on the map, by using Google Earth. We examined our planet, country, state, town and neighborhood.

We continue to collect weather data at the end of every month. We were so excited to notice that we had more "green" (mild) days than "blue" (cold) days on our temperature graph! It's finally getting warmer! We read books about spring and made a spring word web (see below).

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