Check this out! They are so cute!

Mystery reader

Here is Kate's grandma. She was our Mystery Reader today! The students really enjoyed her visit.

Yilan is in the Spotlight this week. She did a great job showing her items at her show-n-tell on Tuesday.

Writer's Workshop, Winter Writing Activity, Experimenting with air

The students have been working so hard on their informational chapter books. Yes, I did say chapter books! They are doing such a good job writing with a teaching voice about each chapter. They have many things to incorporate into their informational writing piece. This week's focus is how to write chapter titles, important things to remember when writing an introduction and adding a "how to" or "list" paper to a chapter.

We read the story Snowmen at Night today. They worked on a creative writing activity as a follow up to the story. The students wrote to a prompt- What would your snowman do at night? The most important part of this activity was to have fun with their story and see if they can remember to use the things they have learned during Writer's Workshop (introduction, sequence words, conclusion, using resources, no mixing, capitals, ending marks). They created really cute stories! 

Science- exploring and learning about Matter. They experimented with air today. They had to observe and notice what happens with the elephant and bunny spinners. When they finished observing, they wrote about their observations and made predictions.  Ask your child - "what is matter?" Hopefully they answer- anything that has mass and takes up space.

reminders

Your child is bringing home the yellow Six Flags Reading log today. The reading they do each week for the homework reading log counts towards the Six Flags log. You just need to write the same book titles on the yellow Six Flags log and the homework reading log. Please keep the Six Flags log until the deadline- February 21. Every student in the class should get a free ticket to Six Flags- just keep doing the homework packet and write it down on the yellow log too!! :) 

Cookie Dough Pick Up Night- 

Wednesday,  December 4th 

3:30-6:30pm

~Book Fair Visit~

Our class will visit the book fair on Thursday to make a "wish list". On Friday, the students who bring money will go again to purchase books. Feel free to send in money on Friday for the book fair. Please make sure it is in a envelope labeled with your child's name and amount to spend on Friday.