Happy first day of spring! Here is a glimpse of what we have been up to this week:
Read Across America: SMS is celebrating Read Across America next week! Monday will be crazy sock day. Tuesday is wear your favorite hat day. Wacky Wednesday is when we wear mismatched clothing to school. Thursday is dress as your favorite book character and Friday is bring a pillow/stuffed animal for drop everything and read.
Readers' Workshop: Your readers have been learning about the features of non-fiction and how readers read to learn new information about a topic. Some of the features we focused on this week were, Table of Contents, Glossary, bold words, and the use of headings. We talked about how non-fiction books aren't always read cover to cover. Readers can read a section of these books.
Writers' Workshop: We are continuing our work on "How To" writing. This week we reviewed planning our story across our fingers. We also worked on using our writing partners to help our writing get better. By having a partner act out our books with us, we can better know if a place is confusing and fix it. This peer editing is an important component of writing. By talking about our writing we become better writers!
Math: The math thinkers in our class have been working on rote counting beyond 50 as a math warm-up this week. We have been busy measuring lengths and using the terms longer and shorter. We also talked about how the term taller (instead of longer)is used when talking about people. The children explored with pan balances and used the measuring vocabulary heavier and lighter. We continue to work with 2D and 3D objects. Please continue to work on those math flashcards at home. We appreciate your support!
Visual Arts: We are creating beautiful spring flowers and leprechauns.
Dramatic Play: The fish grocery store is quite a busy place and the children are enjoying our new dollhouse.
Up-coming Events:
- Field trip to the Music Hall- 4/2
- Early Release for Conferences-4/8 and 4/15
- Phonics-review
- Handwriting-f and q
- Word-my
Have a great weekend!
Kristen
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